Ezra 5:11-13

Common English Bible

¹¹ This was their reply to us: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed. ¹² But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them over into the power of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and deported the people to Babylonia. ¹³ However, in the first year of his rule, Babylon’s King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.