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So we asked these elders, "By whose command are you building this house and laying the foundations of this project?"
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In order that we might inform you, we questioned them about who the leaders are and demanded a list of the names of the troublemakers.
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They told us, "We are the servants of the Lord who created the heaven and the earth.
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The house was built many years before by a great and mighty king of Israel, and it was finished.
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But when our ancestors angrily sinned against the Lord of Israel who is in heaven, God gave them over into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans;