1 Esdras 5:67-69

Revised Standard Version

⁶⁷ And they learned that those who had returned from captivity were building the temple for the Lord God of Israel. ⁶⁸ So they approached Zerub′babel and Jeshua and the heads of the fathers’ houses and said to them, “We will build with you. ⁶⁹ For we obey your Lord just as you do and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhad′don^[a] king of the Assyrians, who brought us here.”