Ezra 5:10-12

Lexham English Bible

¹⁰ We also asked them their names to make them known to you, that we might write down the name of their leaders.^{[a] 11} And this is the answer they returned to us: ‘We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house that was built formerly many years ago, which a great king of Israel had built and finished. ¹² But because our ancestors^[b] angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of the Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.