15:005:010 We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might
write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
15:005:011 And 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.
15:005:012 But 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.
15:005:013 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
15:005:014 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was 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 one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
15:005:015 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
15:005:016 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.
15:005:017 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
15:006:001 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the
house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in
Babylon.
15:006:002 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the
province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus
written: