8 Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the1 temple of the great God, which is being built with2 heavy stones, and timber is being laid in the walls; and this work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.
9 Then we asked those elders, and spoke thus to them: a“Who commanded you to build this temple and to finish these walls?”
10 We also asked them their names to inform you, that we might write the names of the men who were chief among them.
11 And thus they returned us an answer, saying: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the1 temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built aand completed.
12 But abecause our fathers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of bNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and ccarried the people away to Babylon.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Adam Clarke for Ezra 5:10.
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