2:5 Now there happened to be a Jewish man in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai. 1 He was the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjaminite, 2:6 who had been taken into exile from Jerusalem 2 with the captives who had been carried into exile with Jeconiah 3 king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile.