1 Esdras 6:14
King James VersionSource notes
“And as for this house, it was builded many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.”
Context
11Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build ye this house, and lay the foundations of these works?
12Therefore to the intent that we might give knowledge unto thee by writing, we demanded of them who were the chief doers, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men.
13So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
14And as for this house, it was builded many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.
15But when our fathers provoked God unto wrath, and sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, he gave them over into the power of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, of the Chaldees;
16Who pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried away the people captives unto Babylon.
17But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house.