Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 5:10

⁸Be it known to the king, that we went into the land of Judea, to the house of the great God; and it is building with choice stones, and they are laying timbers in the walls, and that work is prospering, and goes on favorably in their hands.

⁹Then we asked those elders, and thus we said to them, Who gave you the order to build this house, and to provide this preparation?

— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 5:10 —

¹¹And they answered us thus, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which had been built many years before this, and a great king of Israel built it, and established it for them.

¹²But after that our fathers provoked the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people captive to Babylon.