11
Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build ye this house, and lay the foundations of these works?
12
Therefore 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.
13
So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
14
And as for this house, it was builded many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.
15
But 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;
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.