Do we know anything of what happened to Esther’s family with the king?

So I have rediscovered a love for the book of Esther, and noticed something. They mention that what happened with the king is written in the book of Kings I believe? Mordecai’s exploits are there too I believe. I’m not sure.


But my main question is: what happened to Esther’s children? What was their life like in the palace after Haaman? Did her sons and daughters represent the Lord as His people, or did they go the way of their father’s pagan roots? Heck did the king even ever convert???

I like human stories of the Bible, so I want to kinda get an idea of what happened.

Her son Darius became King Darius II and he was responsible for the rebuilding of the temple, or as it's called, the second temple.

Supposedly the details are written in the royal chronicles of the Persians, not the biblical book of Chronicles or book of Kings (which pertain to the Israelites and ends with the captivity of Judah by Babylon.) Of this very little is known as much of it has been lost in the course of history. However, it is notable that there was a high counsellor named Mordechai/Marduka that lived in the time of Xerxes, fitting the narrative of Esther quite like a glove.

As for Esther it never says in the Bible if she has any kids with Xerxes or not. In the books which still exist pertaining to this era, the next king after Xerxes is Artaxerxes, his third oldest son by his wife Amestris. It is likely that this is the same Artaxerxes whom would be the king of the Achaemenids during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (As Ezra 4 gives us a short chronology from Cyrus to Darius to Xerxes to Artaxerxes). Supposedly Xerxes was killed by his bodyguard Artabanus, according to the greeks, when he returns from his famous campaigns in Europe.

Whether Xerxes ever converted to follow the true God is unclear. Though the Bible speaks sometimes highly of the Persian kings, we must remember that the Achaemenids are the second Beast Empire. The Achaemenid Empire we must remember was not a Christian empire, though they did tolerate the Christian religion. A hallmark of the Achaemenid Empire is a sort of proto-secularism wherein the kings of the Medes and Persians sought to control the vast geographical extent of their empire, and the large diverse population, by allowing them to practice the ancient religions of their various races. Additionally many of their tombs extol their pagan demonic religion, seeming to indicate that at least publicly the Persian kings, or those whom interred them, still practiced their pagan religion at the least in front of the public.