A common misinterpretation reads the verse as stating that Mordecai himself was carried away captive from Jerusalem in 597 BC with Jeconiah, implying he was over a century old during the events of Esther around 480 BC, which strains plausibility; instead, the grammar indicates Kish, his great-grandfather, as the one exiled, with Mordecai born in captivity, avoiding chronological inconsistencies and affirming the narrative's historical coherence.
Esther 2:6
King James Version (1769)
6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
Esther 2:6 traces Mordecai's ancestry to the Babylonian exile, noting that his forefather Kish was among those deported from Jerusalem with King Jeconiah by Nebuchadnezzar, which situates Mordecai as a descendant of faithful Jews displaced from Judah, living as an exile in Persia while preserving his identity and heritage amid foreign rule, highlighting themes of divine providence preserving God's people through generations in diaspora.