Ezra 5:8-10

Tree of Life Version

⁸ “Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the House of the great God, which is being built with large stones and timber is being set in the walls. Now this work is being done diligently and is succeeding in their hands.

⁹ Then we questioned those elders, asking them, ‘Who gave you the authority to build this House and to complete this structure?’ ¹⁰ We also asked them their names in order to inform you, so that we might write the names of the men who were in charge of them.