1 Esdras 6:14
“And as for this house, it was builded many yeeres agoe, by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.”
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1 Esdras 6:14 Context
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: 16Who pulled downe the house and burnt it, and caried away the people captiues vnto Babylon.
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And as for this house, it was builded many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.
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