Ezra 4:3

Expanded Bible

³ But Zerubbabel, Jeshua [3:2], and the ·leaders [^Lheads of the fathers] of Israel answered, “You will ·not help us build [have no part in building] a ·Temple [^Lhouse] to our God. We will build it ·ourselves [alone] for the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us to do [1:2–4].”