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And it was agreed that the matter should be referred to Darius, and then they should give satisfaction concerning that accusation. </p> <p class="hdg">Tattenai's Letter to Darius</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The copy of the letter that Thathanai governor of the country beyond the river, and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors the Arphasachites, who dwelt beyond the river, sent to Darius the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The letter which they sent him, was written thus: To Darius the king all peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Be it known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which they are building with unpolished stones, and timber is laid in the walls: and this work is carried on diligently, and advanceth in their hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given you authority to build this house, and to repair these walls? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>We asked also of them their names, that we might give thee notice: and we have written the names of the men that are the chief among them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they answered us in these words, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building a temple that was built these many years ago, and which a great king of Israel built and set up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he delivered them into the hands of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon the Chaldean: and he destroyed this house, and carried away the people to Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon, king Cyrus set forth al decree, that this house of God should be built. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the vessels also of gold and silver of the temple of God, which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, and had brought them to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus brought out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one Sassabasar, whom also he appointed governor, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And said to him: Take these vessels, and go, and put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then came this same Sassabasar, and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it is in building, and is not yet finished. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now therefore if it seem good to the 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