Esther 2:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ Then let the young woman who pleases the king rule in place of Vashti.” This advice^[a] pleased the king, and he did this.

Esther’s Background

⁵ In Susa the capital there was a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin, Jair’s son Mordecai, who was a descendant of Kish’s son Shimei the descendant of Benjamin. ⁶ He had been taken into captivity from Jerusalem along with the exiles who had been deported with Jeconiah, king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon had taken into exile.^[b]