Esther 6:12
“¶ And Mordecai came againe to the kings gate: but Haman hasted to his house, mourning, and hauing his head couered.”
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Esther 6:12 Context
10Then the king saide to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparell, and the horse, as thou hast said, and doe euen so to Mordecai the Iew, that sitteth at the Kings gate: let nothing faile of all that thou hast spoken. 11Then tooke Haman the apparell, and the horse, & arayed Mordecai, and brought him on hors-backe through the streete of the city, and proclaimed before him: Thus shall it bee done vnto the man whom the King delighteth to honour. 12¶ And Mordecai came againe to the kings gate: but Haman hasted to his house, mourning, and hauing his head couered. 13And Haman told Zeresh his wife, and all his friends, euery thing that had befallen him. Then saide his wise men, and Zeresh his wife vnto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Iewes, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not preuaile against him, but shalt surely fall before him. 14And while they were yet talking with him, came the kings chamberlens, and hasted to bring Haman vnto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
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And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
- King James Version
Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with {his} head covered.
- New American Standard Version (1995)