1 Esdras 5:69-71

Revised Standard Version

⁶⁹ For we obey your Lord just as you do and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhad′don^[a] king of the Assyrians, who brought us here.” ⁷⁰ But Zerub′babel and Jeshua and the heads of the fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building the house for the Lord our God, ⁷¹ for we alone will build it for the Lord of Israel, as Cyrus the king of the Persians has commanded us.”