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10 We also asked them for their names, in order to inform you so that we could write the names of the men who were their leaders.

11 Now this was what they replied to us: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago. A great king of Israel built it and finished it. 12 However, because our ancestors angered the God of Heaven,[a] he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean. As a result, he destroyed this house and exiled the people to Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 5:12 The God of Heaven is a common name for the Lord in the books from the time of the Exile.