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Ester 2:5

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chamberlain;   Jair;   Kish;   Mordecai;   Shimei;   Shushan (Susa);   Thompson Chain Reference - Mordecai;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Mordecai;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jews, Judaism;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jair;   Kish;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   Elam;   Esther;   Jair;   Kish;   Mordecai;   Shimei;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Esther;   Jair;   Jews in the New Testament;   Kish;   Merodach;   Shimei;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jair;   Jairus;   Kiseus;   Kish;   Semeias;   Shimei, Shimeites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Jairus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jair ;   Kish;   Shimei ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'ir;   Kish;   Shim'ei;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mordecai;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esther, Book of;   Jair;   Jew;   Kish;   Mordecai;   Semeias;   Shimei;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Benjamin;   Esther, Apocryphal Book of;   Esther Rabbah;   Jair;   Mordecai;   Shimei;   Shushan;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for July 18;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hata, maka di dalam kota Susan itu adalah seorang orang Yahudi, bernama Mordekhai bin Yait bin Simai bin Kisy, seorang orang Benyamin,

Contextual Overview

1 After these actes, when the displeasure of king Ahasuerus was nowe alayed, he thought vpon Uasthi, & what she had done, & what was decreed against her. 2 Then sayde the kinges seruauntes that ministred vnto hym: Let there be faire young virgins sought for the king, 3 And let the king appoynt officers in all the prouinces of his empire, that they should bring together al the faire young virgins vnto Susan the head citie to the womens buylding, vnder the hande of Hegai the kinges chamberlayne that kept the women, to geue them their apparell: 4 And that the mayden which pleased the king, should be queene in Uasthis steede. And this pleased the king, and he did so. 5 In the citie of Susan there was a certayne Iewe, whose name was Mardocheus, the sonne of Iair, the sonne of Semei, the sonne of Cis, a man of Iemini, 6 Which was caryed away from Hierusalem with the captiuitie, when Iekonia the king of Iuda was led away, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon caryed thence: 7 And he norished Hadassa (that is Esther) his vncles daughter: for he had neither father nor mother, and she was a faire and beautifull mayden, whom Mardocheus (when her father & mother were dead) receaued for his owne daughter. 8 So when the kinges commaundement and commission was published, and many maydens were brought together into the citie of Susan vnder the hand of Hegai, Esther was brought also vnto the kinges house vnder the hande of Hegai the keper of the women. 9 And the mayden pleased hym, and she founde fauour in his sight: and he caused ornamentes to be geuen her speedyly, and such thinges as belonged to her, and appoynted her seuen comely maydens out of the kinges house, & fauoured both her and her gentlewomen singularly in the house of the women. 10 But Esther shewed not her people and her kinred: for Mardocheus had charged her that she shoulde not tell it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shushan: Esther 2:3, Esther 1:2, Esther 5:1

a certain Jew: Esther 3:2-6, Esther 10:3

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

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
Moreouer, out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree, that was fayre to syght, and pleasaunt to eate: The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll.
Genesis 2:11
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:
Genesis 2:12
And the golde of the lande is very good. There is also Bdellium, and the Onix stone.
Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
And she proceading, brought foorth his brother Habel, and Habel was a keper of sheepe, but Cain was a tyller of the grounde.
Genesis 4:12
If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.
Job 5:10
He geueth rayne vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
Psalms 104:14
He causeth grasse to growe for cattell: and hearbes for the vse of man.
Psalms 135:7
He causeth cloudes to ascende from the lowest part of the earth: he maketh it to lighten when it rayneth, he bringeth wyndes out of his treasure houses.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the gods of the gentiles that sende rayne, or geue the showres from heauen? Art not thou thy selfe our Lorde God? we wyll trust in thee, for thou doest all these thynges.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now in Shushan the palace was a certain Jew,.... Not one of the tribe of Judah, for he was afterwards called a Benjaminite; but was so called, because he was of the kingdom of Judah, which consisted of both tribes. Jarchi says, all that were carried captive with the kings of Judah were called Jews among the nations, though of another tribe:

whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; who was among those that came with Zerubbabel from Babylon to Jerusalem, and returned to Persia again, Ezra 2:2, though some think this was another Mordecai; Ezra 2:2- :, who descended not from Kish, the father of Saul, but a later and more obscure person.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mordecai, the eunuch Esther 2:7, Esther 2:11, has been conjectured to be the same as Matacas, who, according to Ctesias, was the most powerful of the eunuchs during the latter portion of the reign of Xerxes. Mordecai’s line of descent is traced from a certain Kish, carried off by Nebuchadnezzar in 598 B.C. - the year of Jeconiah’s captivity - who was his great-grandfather. The four generations, Kish, Shimei, Jair, Mordecai, correspond to the known generations in other cases, for example:



High priests kings of Persia Royal stock of Judah
Seraiah Cambyses Jeconiah
Jozadak Cyrus Salathiel
Jeshua Darius Zerubbabel
Joiakim Xerxes Hananiah



The age of Mordecai at the accession of Xerxes may probably have been about 30 or 40; that of Esther, his first cousin, about 20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 2:5. Whose name was Mordecai — The Targum says, "He was the son of Jair, the son of Shimea, the son of Gera, the son of Kish." And "this was the same Shimea that cursed David; and whom David forbade Joab to slay because he saw, in the spirit of prophecy, that he was to be the predecessor of Esther and Mordecai; but when he became old, and incapable of having children, David ordered Solomon to put him to death."


 
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