1 Esdras 5:70

70 Then Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the chief of the families of Israel said unto them, "It is not for us and you to build together a house unto the Lord our God.

1 Esdras 5:70 In-Context

68 So they went to Zerubbabel and Jeshua and to the chief of the families, and said unto them, "We will build together with you.

69 For we likewise, as ye, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice unto Him from the days of Esarhaddon the king of the Assyrians, who brought us hither."

70 Then Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the chief of the families of Israel said unto them, "It is not for us and you to build together a house unto the Lord our God.

71 We ourselves alone will build unto the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians hath commanded us."

72 But the heathen of the land, laying heavily upon the inhabitants of Judea and holding them straitened, hindered their building;