Esther 2:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin  Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she had no father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

Cross References

Esther 2:15

Esther was the daughter of Abihail,  the uncle of Mordecai who had adopted her as his own daughter. When her turn came to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women, suggested. Esther gained favour in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, don’t stir up anger  in your children, but bring them up in the training  and instruction of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:18

And I will be a Father   to you, and you will be sons   and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.   ,

Esther 1:11

to bring Queen Vashti before him with her royal crown. He wanted to show off her beauty to the people and the officials, because she was very beautiful.

Genesis 48:5

Your two sons  born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt are now mine.  Ephraim and Manasseh belong to me just as Reuben and Simeon do.

1 John 3:1

See what great love  the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children #– #and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.

Esther 2:20

Esther still did not reveal her family background or her ethnicity, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he brought her up.

Esther 8:1

That same day King Ahasuerus awarded Queen Esther the estate  of Haman, the enemy of the Jews.  Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed her relationship to Mordecai.

Job 31:17

if I have eaten my few crumbs alone without letting the fatherless eat any of it –

Job 31:18

for from my youth, I brought him up as his father, and since the day I was born  I guided the widow –