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Ezra 5:11-13
English Standard Version
Ezra 5:11-13
English Standard Version
11 And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, (A)which a great king of Israel built and (B)finished. 12 (C)But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he (D)gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia. 13 (E)However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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