Ezra 5:10-12

International Standard Version

¹⁰ We also asked them their names so that we could certify the identities^[a] of their leaders to you.

¹¹ In answer they responded, “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are rebuilding the Temple that was built many years ago by a great king of Israel. ¹² But because our predecessors provoked the God of Heaven to become angry, he handed them over to the control^[b] of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean who destroyed this Temple and transported the people to Babylon.