Ezra 5:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

⁹ Then asked we 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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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?'

Ezra 5:9 Tagairtí Cros

Ezra 4:12

Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from you are come to us to Yerushalayim; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

Ezra 5:10

We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at the head of them.

Ezra 5:8

Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Yehudah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.