Ezra 5:9-11

Revised Geneva Translation

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.

¹¹ “But they answered us thus, and said, ‘We are the servants of the God of Heaven and Earth, and build the House that was built of old, many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and founded.