Ezra 5:10-12

Common English Bible

¹⁰ We also asked them their names so that we could write down the names of the leaders for your information.

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.