Bible Strands
Esther 2:6
He had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative provides historical background for Mordecai’s lineage, identifying an ancestor who was deported from Jerusalem to Babylon.
The words — הָגְלָה (ha.ge.Lah) literally means "he had been taken into exile," and מִ/יר֣וּשָׁלַ֔יִם (mi./Ru.sha.La.yim) translates as "from Jerusalem."
The thread — This event aligns with the deportation accounts in 2 Kings 24:14, 2 Chronicles 36:20, and Jeremiah 24:1, which record Nebuchadnezzar’s removal of Judah’s officials and people to Babylon.
Why it lands — The verse states the factual displacement of a Judahite ancestor among Jeconiah’s captives, establishing the historical reality of the exile that frames Mordecai’s identity and the book’s setting.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 24:14 He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.
- 2 Chronicles 36:20 Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
- Jeremiah 24:1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 24:6 And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 22:24 “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
- Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?