World English Bible (WEB)
"Thus they returned us answer, saying, "We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished."
The return from exile and rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.
Old Testament • Book #15
Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and t...
Ezra 5:10We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at t...
Ezra 5:12But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Ne...
Ezra 5:13But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of ...
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