Esther 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Jeconiah. Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:6).

carried away. Compare 2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 24:15; Jeremiah 1:24-34:133 years before the generally received date (i.e. 598-465. 133), which, therefore, cannot be correct. From the carrying away of Jeconiah to the marriage of Esther to Astyages in his seventh year was only twenty-two years (489-467). See App-50.

Esther 2:6

6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiaha king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.