Ezra 5:9 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁹ Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Then we asked those elders, Who authorized you to build this house and restore these walls?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

Common English Bible

⁹ We asked those elders, “Who authorized you to build this house and to complete the preparation of this material?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

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?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given you authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?

Ezra 5:9 Cross References

Ezra 4:12

Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.

Ezra 5:10

We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

Ezra 5:8

Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.