But Zerub′babel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

let the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.