Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 5:11
Source: Septuagint
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.
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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?
10And we asked them their names, in order to declare them to thee, so as to write to thee the names of their leading men.
— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 5:11 —
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.
13And in the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be built.