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11
|Esdras 5:11|
This is the answer they gave us: “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, one that a great king of Israel built and finished.
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12
|Esdras 5:12|
But because our fathers angered the God of heaven, he handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
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13
|Esdras 5:13|
“However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.
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14
|Esdras 5:14|
He even removed from the temple [Or palace] of Babylon the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple [Or palace] in Babylon. “Then King Cyrus gave them to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor,
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15
|Esdras 5:15|
and he told him, `Take these articles and go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem. And rebuild the house of God on its site.’
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16
|Esdras 5:16|
So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem. From that day to the present it has been under construction but is not yet finished.”
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17
|Esdras 5:17|
Now if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal archives of Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.
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