Ezra 5:13
King James Version
“But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.”
Context
10We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that the chief of them.
11And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
12But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
13But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
14And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto whose name Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
15And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
16Then came the same Sheshbazzar, laid the foundation of the house of God which in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and it is not finished.