1 Esdras 6:13 Context

¹¹Then asked wee these Elders, saying, By whose commaundement builde you this house, and lay the foundations of these workes? ¹²Therefore to the intent that wee might giue knowledge vnto thee by writing, we demanded of them who were the chiefe doers, and we required of them the names in writing of their principall men. ¹³So they gaue vs this answere: We are the seruants of the Lord which made heauen and earth. ¹⁴And as for this house, it was builded many yeeres agoe, by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished. ¹⁵But when our fathers prouoked God vnto wrath, and sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heauen, hee gaue them ouer into the power of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon of the Chaldees:

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