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There was a certain Jew in Shushan the palace, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
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Mordecai's Identity
Commentators explain that Mordecai, a Benjamite, was called a "Jew" because he belonged to the former kingdom of Judah, which included the tribe of Benjamin. His lineage is traced to a man named Kish who was exiled from Jerusalem. Scholars clarify this was likely a more recent ancestor, not the famous father of King Saul, grounding Mordecai as a specific individual in the Jewish exilic community.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Mordecai, the eunuch (Esther 2:7, Esther 2:11), has been conjectured to be the same as Matacas, who, according to Ctesias, w…
19th Century
Anglican
Mordecai. —Canon Rawlinson is inclined to identify Mordecai with Matacas, who was the most powerful of the eunuchs in the reign of…
17th Century
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Now in Shushan the palace was a certain Jew.
Not one of the tribe of Judah, for he was afterwards called a Benjami…
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