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Ezra 5:9
Ezra 5:9 is verse 9 of Ezra chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
King James Version
Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
World English Bible
Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
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Ezra 5:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: All peace.
8 Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones, and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.
9 So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
10 We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.
11 And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ezra 5:3At that time Tattenai the governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates went to the Jews and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
Ezra 5:4They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”