Ezra 5:11-13
1599 Geneva Bible
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 and many years ago, which a [a]great king of Israel (A)built, and founded it.
12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, (B)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 unto Babel.
13 But in the [b]first year of Cyrus king of Babel, King Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
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