Est 2:5-7 | ESV | STEP | Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai , the son of Jair , son of Shimei , son of Kish , a Benjaminite ,

b 2 Kgs. 24:14, 15; 2 Chr. 36:10, 20; Jer. 24:1; 29:1, 2

Esther 2:5-7

5 Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was ^aMordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite, 6 ^bwho had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away. 7 He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, ^cthe daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.