Ezra 5:9
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
In context
7 The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: All peace.
8 Let it be known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. The people are rebuilding it with large stones, and placing timbers in the walls. This work is being carried out diligently and is prospering in their hands.
9 So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
10 We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.
11 And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
Ezra 5:9 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
- KJV King James Version
- Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
- WEB World English Bible
- Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
- ASV American Standard Version
- Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Then we have asked of these elders, thus we have said to them, Who hath made for you a decree this house to build, and this wall to finish?
- DBY Darby Translation
- Then asked we those elders: thus we said to them, Who gave you orders to build this house and to complete this wall?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to erect these walls?