Ezra 5:8-10

Revised Geneva Translation

⁸ “Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the House of the great God, which is built with great stones. And beams are laid in the walls. And this work is wrought speedily and prospers in their hands.

⁹ “Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, ‘Who has given you commandment to build this House, and to lay the foundation of these walls?’

¹⁰ “We also asked their names so that we might inform you, and so that we might write the names of the men who were their rulers.