² Then ^[a]Jeshua the son of ^(A)Jozadak^[b] and his brethren the priests, ^(B)and Zerubbabel the son of ^(C)Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is ^(D)written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, ^(A)“You may do nothing with us to build a ^[a]house for our God; but we alone will build to the Lord God of Israel, as ^(B)King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”