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
And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.
Hadassah
Daniel 1:6
And there are among them out of the sons of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
His uncle's
Esther 2:15
And in the drawing nigh of the turn of Esther -- daughter of Abihail, uncle of Mordecai, whom he had taken to him for a daughter -- to come in unto the king, she hath not sought a thing except that which Hegai eunuch of the king, keeper of the women, saith, and Esther is receiving grace in the eyes of all seeing her.
Jeremiah 32:7
Lo, Hanameel son of Shallum, thine uncle, is coming unto thee, saying, Buy for thee my field that is in Anathoth, for thine is the right of redemption -- to buy.
Fair and beautiful
Esther 1:11
to bring in Vashti the queen before the king, with a royal crown, to shew the peoples and the heads her beauty, for she is of good appearance,
Took
Genesis 48:5
And now, thy two sons, who are born to thee in the land of Egypt, before my coming unto thee to Egypt, mine they are; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they are mine;
2 Corinthians 6:18
and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'
1 John 3:1
See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;