Esther 6:7

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

Ver. 7. And Haman answered the king] After a short pause, he had his answer ready; but making a bridge of his own shadow, he soon fell into the brook. Ambition rideth without reins, and like those horses, Amo 6:11 runneth upon the rocks, where first she breaks her hoofs, and then her neck. It seemeth, by that which followeth, that Haman aspired to the kingdom: why, else did he ask the crown royal, and the kings horse? &c. When David would declare Solomon his successor in the kingdom, he set him upon his own mule, 1 Kings 1:33. But Haman little thought that his high hopes should end in a rope. So did Hanno's, the Carthaginian, and Roger Mortimer's in King Edward II's time, and the false Edric in King Canute's days; and lastly, Hadrian de Castello, an Italian legate, made by King Henry VII bishop of Hereford, who conspired with Alphonso Petruccio, and other sacred cardinals, to murder Pope Leo X, induced thereunto by the suggestion of a witch, who foretold to him, that one Hadrian, an old man of mean parentage, of great learning and wisdom, should succeed in the Papacy, the man, Haman-like, thought it must needs be himself; but another Hadrian, schoolmaster to Charles V, proved to be the man: and this our Hadrian lost by deprivation all his promotions whatsoever (for his life could not be come at) for his nefarious attempt (Paul Jovius).

For the man whom the king delighteth to honour] Heb. In whose honour the king delighteth. And what will not delight do, whether in good or evil? See Trapp on " Mic 7:18 "