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Esther 2:4-6
GOD’S WORD Translation
Esther 2:4-6
GOD’S WORD Translation
4 Then the young woman who pleases you, Your Majesty, will become queen instead of Vashti.”
The king liked the suggestion, and so he did just that.
5 In the fortress of Susa there was a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai. He was the son of Jair, the grandson of Shimei, and the great-grandson of Kish. 6 (Kish had been taken captive from Jerusalem together with the others who had gone into exile along with Judah’s King Jehoiakin,[a] whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried away.)
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- 2:6 Masoretic Text “Jeconiah,” an alternate form of Jehoiakin.
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