Esther 2:7

Modern English Version

He was the guardian of Hadassah, that is Esther (who was his uncle’s daughter), because she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely to look at and beautiful in form. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

Cross References

Genesis 48:5

“Now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

Esther 1:11

to bring Queen Vashti before the king with the royal crown, to unveil her beauty to the people and the officials, for she was beautiful.

Esther 2:15

When the turn came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what the king’s eunuch Hegai, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her.

Esther 2:20

Esther had not yet disclosed her lineage or her people, since Mordecai had so commanded her. Esther followed the command of Mordecai just as she had when under his protection.

Esther 8:1

On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. Mordecai came before the king because Esther disclosed who he was to her.

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel by myself, so that the fatherless could not eat of it

Job 31:18

(but from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb);

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 John 3:1

Consider how much love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.