Ezra 5:8-10

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁸ Be it known unto the Melech, that we went into the province of Yehudah, to the Beis of the great Elohim, which is being built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

⁹ Then asked we those leaders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this Beis [Hamikdash], and to restore this structure?

¹⁰ We asked their shmot also, to inform thee, that we might write down the shmot of the men that were their heads for thy information.