Esther 6:4

Who is in the court? Perhaps it was scarcely light when Hainan arrived — light enough for his presence, but not his identity, to be detected. Early morning is a common time for the transaction of business at an Eastern court. Hainan’s anxiety to conclude his plan with regard to Mordecai, ere the hour appointed for the second banquet should arrive, impelled him to come early in the hope of securing, if possible, the first audience. It was his undue haste to effect Mordecai’s destruction that led to his being the person chosen by the king to do Mordecai the highest honor. How often pride precedes destruction, and a haughty spirit, a fall (Prov. 16:18).