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<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Then we told them accordingly what the names of the men were who were reconstructing this building. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report could come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Adversaries Write to Darius</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span><i>This is</i> the copy of the letter which Tattenai, the governor of <i>the province</i> beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and his colleagues the officials, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>They sent a report to him in which it was written thus: To Darius the king, all peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with huge stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is going on with great care and is succeeding in their hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Then we asked those elders and said to them thus, Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>We also asked them their names so as to inform you, and that we might write down the names of the men who were at their head. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Thus they answered us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>But because our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, <i>who</i> destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Also the gold and silver utensils of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, and brought them to the temple of Babylon, these King Cyrus took from the temple of Babylon and they were given to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>He said to him, Take these utensils, go <i>and</i> deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem and let the house of God be rebuilt in its place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Then that Sheshbazzar came <i>and</i> laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem; and from then until now it has been under construction and it is not <i>yet</i> completed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/5-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Now if it pleases the king, let a search be conducted in the kings treasure house, which is there in Babylon, if it be that a decree was issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send to us his decision concerning this <i>matter.</i><p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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