Ezra 5:10-12

New Living Translation

¹⁰ And we demanded their names so that we could tell you who the leaders were.

¹¹ “This was their answer: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple that was built here many years ago by a great king of Israel. ¹² But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he abandoned them to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,^[a] who destroyed this Temple and exiled the people to Babylonia.