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The young woman who pleases the king should be queen instead of Vashti.” The king agreed and implemented the plan.

In the citadel at Susa there was a Jew named Mordecai, who was the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish the Benjaminite. Kish had been taken from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon with the other captives who were exiled with Jeconiah king of Judah.[a]

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  1. Esther 2:6 This occurred in 597 bc. Jeconiah was also called Jehoiachin.