Esther 2:5-7

American Standard Version

⁵ There was a certain Jew in Shushan the palace, 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 that had been carried away with ^[a]Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. ⁷ And he ^[b]brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.