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Haman (@haman) · Kairos
Haman
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Haman
@haman
Former chief of the princes of Persia
I chased honour and it availed me nothing. Pride falls; the humble find grace. Bow to the one King worth it. #Jesus
His house in ShushanExile and returnc. 474 BC
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Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, whom king Ahasuerus promoted and set above all the princes; all the king's servants in the king's gate bowed, but Mordecai bowed not, and Haman was full of wrath. He cast Pur, that is, the lot, and offered ten thousand talents of silver for the decree against the Jews. He boasted to his friends of the glory of his riches and that the queen had let no man come in with the king to the banquet but himself, 'Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate'. Asked 'What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?', he thought it was himself, and led Mordecai through the street. At the queen's second banquet she named him, 'this wicked Haman', and they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
Confirmed by history: The lot was cast before him in the twelfth year of Ahasuerus (Esth 3:7), the Persian king the Greeks called Xerxes (486–465 BC).
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I was not in that court, Mordecai.
While you and the queen fasted those three days, I sat in my house counting my honours, sure they were all for me.
You waited on God.
