5 Now there was a Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai son of Jair son of Shimei son of Kish, a Benjaminite.

6 Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with King Jeconiah of Judah, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had carried away.

Esther 2:5-6, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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