Ezra 5:9-11

21st Century King James Version

⁹ Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus: ‘Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?’

¹⁰ We asked their names also, to inform thee, that we might write the names of the men who were the chief of them.

¹¹ And thus they returned us answer, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up.