Ezra 5:9-11

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁹ Then asked we those leaders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this Beis [Hamikdash], and to restore this structure?

¹⁰ We asked their shmot also, to inform thee, that we might write down the shmot of the men that were their heads for thy information.

¹¹ And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the avadim of the Elohei Shomayim vAretz, and build the Beis that was built these many years ago, which a great Melech Yisroel built and set up.