Ezra 5:9-11

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁹ Then we questioned those elders, and we said this to them, “Who gave you an order to build this house and to finish this structure?” ¹⁰ We also asked them for their names, in order to inform you so that we could write the names of the men who were their leaders.

¹¹ Now this was what they replied to us: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago. A great king of Israel built it and finished it.