Ezra 5:10-12

Contemporary English Version

¹⁰ We also asked for the names of their leaders, so that we could write them down for you.

¹¹ They claimed to be servants of the God who rules heaven and earth. And they said they were rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago by one of Israel's greatest kings.^[a]

^12 (A) We were told that their people had made God angry, and he let them be captured by Nebuchadnezzar,^[b] the Babylonian king^[c] who took them away as captives to Babylonia. Nebuchadnezzar tore down their temple,