Ezra 5:9

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Then we asked these old men, thus we said to them, Who set to you a decree to build this house and to complete this wall?

Cross References

Ezra 4:12

To be known to the king that the Jews who went up from with thee to us, came to Jerusalem, building the perverse and bad city, and they completed its wall, and they will repair its foundations.

Ezra 5:10

And also we asked their names for them to make known to thee that we shall write the name of the men that were among their heads.

Ezra 5:8

To be known to the king that we went to the Judah province, to the house of the great God; and it was building with stone of rolling, and wood being set up in the walls; and this work being diligently done, and prospering in their hands.