10 Then the king said to Haman , "Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said , and do so for Mordecai the Jew , who is sitting at the king's gate ; do not fall short in anything of all that you have said ." 11 So Haman took the robe and the horse , and arrayed Mordecai , and led him on horseback through the city square , and proclaimed before him, "Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor ."
12 Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate . But Haman hurried home , mourning , with his head covered .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Esther 6:10-12
Commentary on Esther 6:4-11
(Read Esther 6:4-11)
See how men's pride deceives them. The deceitfulness of our own hearts appears in nothing more than in the conceit we have of ourselves and our own performances: against which we should constantly watch and pray. Haman thought the king loved and valued no one but himself, but he was deceived. We should suspect that the esteem which others profess for us, is not so great as it seems to be, that we may not think too well of ourselves, nor trust too much in others. How Haman is struck, when the king bids him do honour to Mordecai the Jew, the very man whom he hated above all men, whose ruin he was now designing!
Commentary on Esther 6:12-14
(Read Esther 6:12-14)
Mordecai was not puffed up with his honours, he returned to his place and the duty of it. Honour is well bestowed on those that do not think themselves above their business. But Haman could not bear it. What harm had it done him? But that will break a proud man's heart, which will not break a humble man's sleep. His doom was, out of this event, read to him by his wife and his friends. They plainly confessed that the Jews, though scattered through the nations, were special objects of Divine care. Miserable comforters are they all; they did not advise Haman to repent, but foretold his fate as unavoidable. The wisdom of God is seen, in timing the means of his church's deliverance, so as to manifest his own glory.