Ezra 5:10
“We asked their names also, to certifie thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chiefe of them.”
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Ezra 5:10 Context
8Be it knowen vnto the king, that we went into the prouince of Iudea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, & timber is laied in the wals, and this worke goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands. 9Then asked we those Elders, and said vnto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make vp these walles? 10We asked their names also, to certifie thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chiefe of them. 11And thus they returned vs answere, saying, We are the seruants of the God of heauen and earth, and build the house that was builded these many yeeres agoe, which a great King of Israel builded, and set vp. 12But after that our fathers had prouoked the God of heauen vnto wrath: he gaue them into the hande of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Caldean, who destroyed this house, and caried the people away into Babylon.
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We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that [were] the chief of them.
- King James Version
"We also asked them their names so as to inform you, and that we might write down the names of the men who were at their head.
- New American Standard Version (1995)