Ezra 5:9

9 Then asked we those leaders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this Beis [Hamikdash], and to restore this structure?

Ezra 5:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 5:9

Then asked we those elders
The elders of the province of Judea; the chief men of it:

who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
see ( Ezra 5:3 ) .

Ezra 5:9 In-Context

7 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: Unto Daryavesh HaMelech, all Shalom.

8 Be it known unto the Melech, that we went into the province of Yehudah, to the Beis of the great Elohim, which is being built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

9 Then asked we those leaders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this Beis [Hamikdash], and to restore this structure?

10 We asked their shmot also, to inform thee, that we might write down the shmot of the men that were their heads for thy information.

11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the avadim of the Elohei Shomayim vAretz, and build the Beis that was built these many years ago, which a great Melech Yisroel built and set up.