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It is being built of hewn stone, and timber is laid in the walls; this work is being done diligently and prospers in their hands. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Then we spoke to those elders and asked them, ‘Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>We also asked them their names, for your information, so that we might write down the names of the men at their head. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>This was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But because our ancestors had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>However, King Cyrus of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Moreover, the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem and had brought into the temple of Babylon, these King Cyrus took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>He said to him, “Take these vessels; go and put them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem; and from that time until now it has been under construction, and it is not yet finished.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>And now, if it seems good to the king, have a search made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. Let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezra 5:1">Ezra 5:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Aram adds <i>the prophet</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Ezra 5:4">Ezra 5:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Aram <i>We</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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