10 We asked their names also that we might certify thee, and that we might write the names of the men that were their rulers.

11 But they answered us thus, and said, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was built of old and many years ago, which a [a]great king of Israel (A)built, and founded it.

12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, (B)he gave them over into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel the Chaldean, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people away captive unto Babel.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 5:11 To wit, Solomon.

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