Ezra 5:9

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

Ezra 4:12

let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have come to Jerusalem, and are building the rebellious and the evil city, and have set up its walls, and have joined the foundations.

Ezra 5:10

We also asked their names in order to notify you so that we might write the names of the men who are the chief of them.

Ezra 5:8

Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is being built with great stones, and timber is being laid in the walls, and this work goes on fast and is blessed in their hands.