Ezra 5:10-12

Contemporary English Version

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

¹¹They 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,

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Footnotes

5.11 one of Israel's greatest kings: Solomon (ruled from about 970 to 931 b.c.).
5.12 Nebuchadnezzar: See the note at 1.7.
5.12 the Babylonian king: Aramaic “the Babylonian king from Chaldea,” but Chaldea is another name for Babylonia.