Esther 2:5

Overview - Esther 2
Out of the choice of virgins a queen is to be chosen.
Mordecai the nursing father of Esther.
Esther preferred before the rest.
12 The manner of purification, and going in to the king.
15 Esther best pleasing the king, is made queen.
21 Mordecai discovering a treason, is recorded in the chronicles.
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Esther 2:5  (King James Version)
Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
 


Shushan
3 ; 1:2 5:1

a certain Jew
3:2-6 10:3

the son of Shimei
1 Samuel 9:1 ; 2 Samuel 16:5