1. In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, on the first day of the month of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin,
2. a Jewish man who lived in the city of Susa, a great gentleman, and among the first ones of the king's court, saw a dream.
3. Now he was one of a number of captives, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jeconiah king of Judah.
4. And this was his dream: voices appeared, and confusion, and thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.