Ezra 5:11-13

New Living Translation

¹¹ “This was their answer: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple that was built here many years ago by a great king of Israel. ¹² But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he abandoned them to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,^[a] who destroyed this Temple and exiled the people to Babylonia. ¹³ However, King Cyrus of Babylon,^[b] during the first year of his reign, issued a decree that the Temple of God should be rebuilt.