Ezra 5:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ They replied, We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, rebuilding the house which was erected and finished many years ago by a great king of Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and finished.

Common English Bible

¹¹ This was their reply to us: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Then they responded a word to us in this manner, saying: 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. And we are building the temple that was constructed these many years before, and which a great king of Israel had built and constructed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ 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.

Ezra 5:11 Cross References

Genesis 24:3

and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

1 Kings 6:38

In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.

1 Kings 9:10

At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king’s house,

Ezra 5:10

We also asked them their names, for your information, so that we might write down the names of the men at their head.

Psalm 119:46

I will also speak of your decrees before kings and shall not be put to shame;

Psalm 136:26

O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Daniel 3:26

Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.

Jonah 1:9

“I am a Hebrew,” he replied. “I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Matthew 10:32

“Everyone, therefore, who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven,

Luke 12:8

“And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,

Acts 27:23

For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is God’s saving power for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Galatians 6:14

May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

Joshua 24:15

Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”