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and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

There was a certain Jew in Shushan the palace, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives that had been carried away with [a]Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 2:6 In 2 Kin. 24:6, Jehoiachin.