Ezra 5:10-12

New American Standard Bible

¹⁰ We also asked them their names so as to inform you, in order that we might write down the names of the men who were ^[a]in charge. ¹¹ So they ^[b]answered us as follows, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, ^(A)which a great king of Israel built and finished. ¹² But ^(B)because our fathers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, ^(C)He handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.