Ezra 5:10-12

Revised Geneva Translation

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.

¹² ‘But after our fathers had provoked the God of Heaven to wrath, He gave them over into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, the Chaldean. And he destroyed this house and carried the people away captive to Babel.