Charles Ellicott Commentary Esther 2:6

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Esther 2:6

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Esther 2:6

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives that had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away." — Esther 2:6 (ASV)

Who had been ... —The antecedent is obviously Kish, though as far as the mere grammar goes it might have been Mordecai.

Jeconiah. —That is, Jehoiachin. (See 2 Kings 24:12–16.)

Nebuchadnezzar ... had carried away. —This was in 598 B.C., 117 years before this time, so that the four generations are readily accounted for.