Esther 2:5-7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁵ In the fortress of Susa, there was a Jewish man named Mordecai^(A) son of Jair, son of Shimei,^(B) son of Kish,^(C) a Benjaminite. ⁶ He had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the other captives when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took King Jeconiah^[a] of Judah into exile.^{(D) 7} Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin^[b] Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she didn’t have a father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.^(E)