Esther 6:7

English Standard Version

And Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Haman told the king, “For the man the king wants to honor:

Hebrew Names Version
Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,

King James Version
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

New Century Version
So he answered the king, "This is what you could do for the man you want very much to honor.

New English Translation
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wishes to honor,

Amplified Bible
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,

New American Standard Bible
Therefore Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,

World English Bible
Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Haman answered the King, The man whome the King would honour,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Berean Standard Bible
And Haman told the king, "For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,

Contemporary English Version
So he replied, "Your Majesty, if you wish to honor a man,

Complete Jewish Bible
So Haman answered the king, "For a man the king wants to honor,

Darby Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honour,

Easy-to-Read Version
So Haman answered the king, "Do this for the man the king loves to honor:

George Lamsa Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Good News Translation
So he answered the king, "Have royal robes brought for this man—robes that you yourself wear. Have a royal ornament put on your own horse.

Lexham English Bible
So Haman said to the king, "For a man whom the king wishes to honor,

Literal Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Aman sayde vnto the kynge: Let the man vnto whom the kynge wolde be glad to do worshippe, be broughte hither,

American Standard Version
And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,

Bible in Basic English
And Haman, answering the king, said, For the man whom the king has delight in honouring,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Haman aunswered the king: Let the man whom the king pleaseth to bring vnto worship, be brought hither,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Haman said unto the king: 'For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

King James Version (1611)
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and he said to the king, As for the man whom the king wishes to honour,

English Revised Version
And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he answeride, The man, whom the kyng couetith to onoure,

Update Bible Version
And Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,

New King James Version
And Haman answered the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,

New Living Translation
So he replied, "If the king wishes to honor someone,

New Life Bible
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wants to honor,

New Revised Standard
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wishes to honor,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Haman said unto the king, - As touching the man in whose honour, the king, delighteth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,

Revised Standard Version
and Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Young's Literal Translation
And Haman saith unto the king, `The man in whose honour the king hath delighted,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,

Contextual Overview

⁴ And the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him. ⁵ And the king's young men told him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in." ⁶ So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?" ⁷ And Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, ⁸ let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set. ⁹ And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.'" ¹⁰ Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned." ¹¹ So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whom the king: etc. Heb. in whose honour the king delighteth, Esther 6:9, Esther 6:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:42 - his ring

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

Genesis 6:20
Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.

Genesis 6:22
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

Psalms 37:20
But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Haman answered the king,.... At once, being very prompt to suggest the honours he hoped to have done to himself:

for the man whom the king delighteth to honour; let the following things be done.