Ezra 5:9-11

Young's Literal Translation

⁹ Then we have asked of these elders, thus we have said to them, Who hath made for you a decree this house to build, and this wall to finish?

¹⁰ And also their names we have asked of them, to let thee know, that we might write the names of the men who [are] at their head.

¹¹ `And thus they have returned us word, saying, We [are] servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built many years before this, that a great king of Israel built and finished: