Esther 2:7

King James Version - American Edition

And he brought up Hadas´sah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor´decai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Cross References

Genesis 48:5

And now thy two sons, E´phra-im and Manas´seh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

Esther 1:11

to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

Esther 2:15

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Ab´ihail the uncle of Mor´decai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what He´gai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

Esther 2:20

Esther had not yet showed her kindred nor her people, as Mor´decai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mor´decai, like as when she was brought up with him.

Esther 8:1

On that day did the king Ahasue´rus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mor´decai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Job 31:18

(for from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

2 Corinthians 6:18

and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

1 John 3:1

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.