Ezra 5:9 CPDV

⁷  The word that they sent him was written in this way: 'To Darius, the king of all peace.

⁸  Let it be known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which they are building with rough stones, and with timber set into the walls. And this work is being built up diligently, and it increases by their hands.

⁹  Therefore, we questioned those elders, and we spoke to them in this way: 'Who has given authority to you, so that you would build this house and repair these walls?'

¹⁰  But we also required of them their names, so that we might report to you. And we have written down the names of their men, those who are leaders among them.

¹¹  Then they responded a word to us in this manner, saying: 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. And we are building the temple that was constructed these many years before, and which a great king of Israel had built and constructed.