Esther 2:5-7

New King James Version

⁵ In ^[a]Shushan the ^[b]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. ^6 (B)Kish^[c] had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with ^[d]Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. ⁷ And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, ^(C)his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.