And let the young woman who pleases the king[a] be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.

Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was (A)Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite, (B)who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 2:4 Hebrew who is good in the eyes of the king

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