Esther 2:3-5

New King James Version

³ and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to ^[a]Shushan the ^[b]citadel, into the women’s quarters, under the custody of ^[c]Hegai the king’s eunuch, custodian of the women. And let beauty preparations be given them. ⁴ Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.”

This thing pleased the king, and he did so.

⁵ In ^[d]Shushan the ^[e]citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of ^(A)Kish, a Benjamite.