Esther 2:4-6

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⁴ and after that, the girl who pleases you most shall be the queen instead of Vashti.”

This suggestion naturally pleased the king very much, and he put the plan into immediate effect.

⁵ Now there was a certain Jew at the palace named Mordecai (son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite). ⁶ He had been captured when Jerusalem was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar and had been exiled to Babylon along with King Jeconiah of Judah and many others.