“And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.”
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the robe 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, demonstrating the king's command to Haman to implement the honors he has just described, but to bestow them on Mordecai rather than on Haman himself. This moment represents the dramatic reversal where Haman's own words are turned against him and he is commanded to honor the man he despises most and against whom he has plotted murder. The verse demonstrates the theological principle that God often works to overturn the plans of the wicked through their own mouths and machinations.
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