1. After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was abated, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
2. Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be beautiful young virgins sought out for the king:
3. And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins unto Shushan the citadel, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, keeper of the women; and let their beautifying ointments be given them:
4. And let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
5. Now in Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;