Ezra 5:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ At the same time, Tattenai came to them (who was captain beyond the River) and Shethar-Boznai and their companions, and said thus to them, “Who has given you commandment to build this House, and to lay the foundations of these walls?”

⁴ Then we said to them after this manner, “What are the names of the men who build this building?”

⁵ But the Eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, so that they could not make them stop until the matter came to Darius. And then they answered by letters about it.