2 Esdras 3:23

23 So the times passed and the years were completed, and thou didst raise up for thyself a servant, named David.

2 Esdras 3:23 In-Context

21 For the first Adam, burdened with an evil heart, transgressed and was overcome, as were also all who were descended from him.

22 Thus the disease became permanent; the law was in the people's heart along with the evil root, but what was good departed, and the evil remained.

23 So the times passed and the years were completed, and thou didst raise up for thyself a servant, named David.

24 And thou didst command him to build a city for thy name, and in it to offer thee oblations from what is thine.

25 This was done for many years; but the inhabitants of the city transgressed,