John Trapp on Esther 2:6

Verſe 6. Who had been carried away from Jeruſalem] Kiſh [illegible: 1 letter]ad, not Mordeca[illegible: 1 letter]: unleſſe it were in the loines of his great grandfather. Kiſh and his poſterity were of thoſe goods figs mentioned in Jeremy: but goodneſſe is no target againſt affliction.

— nec te tua plurima Penthen Labentem texit pietas.Virg.

With the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah] The good figs were carried away at the ſame time with the bad; but in ſeveral baskets, Jer. 34.1. Kiſh and others like him, as Daniel, Ezekiel, Shadrach, Meſhack and Abednego, &c. were not only good men, but very good, like the figs that are firſt ripe, Jer. 24.2. ſuch as Gods ſoul deſireth, Mic. 7.1. and yet they were carried away with Jeconiah and the reſt that were naught, ſtark naught, Jer. 24.2. The beſt may have their ſhare in a common calamity: but God will not faile even then to ſet his eyes upon them for good, Jer. 24.6. The husbandman cutteth down his corne and weeds together, but for different purpoſe. Excellently Auſtin, Ʋna eademque vis irruens bonos probat, purificat, eliquat; malos damnat, vaſtat, exterminat: One and the ſame common calamity proveth,De Civit. Dei. lib, 1. cap. 8. melteth, purifieth the good; damneth, waſteth, deſtroyeth the evil: theſe have an evil, an onely evil, Ezek. 7.5. without mixture of mercy; and that becauſe they are naught, very naught, figs that cannot be eaten, they are ſo naught, Jer. 24.2.

Whom Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon had carried away] Loe here the rod in Gods hand for the chaſtiſement of his children; that being chaſtened of the Lord, they may not be condemned with the world, 1 Cor. 11.32. This rod when he had worne to the ſtumps, he caſt into the fire.