Est 2:5-6 | ESV | STEP | Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai , the son of Jair , son of Shimei , son of Kish , a Benjaminite ,

b 2 Kgs. 24:14, 15; 2 Chr. 36:10, 20; Jer. 24:1; 29:1, 2

‏ Esther 2:5-6

5 Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was ^aMordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite, 6 ^bwho had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.