What about the lineage of Esther?\u00a0 Know anything about that?<\/p>\n\t
“In Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite. Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, 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<\/em>” (Esther 2:5-7).<\/p>\n
“Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her<\/em>” (Esther 2:15).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Assuming that Mordecai was related to Esther through his uncle on his father’s side, then Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the brother of Jair and son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: What about the lineage of Esther?\u00a0 Know anything about that? Answer: “In Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite. Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with Jeconiah…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[1219,556],"class_list":["post-34362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-esther","tag-genealogy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":90723,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/esther-such-a-time-as-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":34362,"position":0},"title":"Esther: “Such a Time as This”","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Keith Greer A great king, after subduing Egypt and Babylon, determined to have a feast. 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