Esther 2:4-6

World English Bible

⁴ and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

⁵ There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, ⁶ who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.