Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Brought up
Hadassah
His uncle's
Fair and beautiful
Bible References
Brought up
Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.
Hadassah
Daniel 1:6
Now among these children of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
His uncle's
Esther 2:15
When the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And all who saw her looked on Esther kindly.
Jeremiah 32:7
Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you. He says: Buy for yourself my field at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.'
Fair and beautiful
Esther 1:11
That Vashti the queen was to come before him, with her royal crown, and let the people and the captains see her beauty: for she was very beautiful.
Took
Genesis 48:5
Jacob went on to say: Joseph, your two sons Ephraim and Manasseh were born in Egypt. But I accept them as my own, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
2 Corinthians 6:18
I will be a Father to you, and you will be to me sons and daughters, said Jehovah God the Almighty. (Hosea 1:10)
1 John 3:1
Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.