Ezra 5:7-9

Revised Geneva Translation

⁷ (they sent a letter to him in which it was written): “TO DARIUS the king, all peace.

⁸ “Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the House of the great God, which is built with great stones. And beams are laid in the walls. And this work is wrought speedily and prospers in their hands.

⁹ “Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, ‘Who has given you commandment to build this House, and to lay the foundation of these walls?’