Ezra 5:8-11

8Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, with beams laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and care and is succeeding in their hands.

9Then we asked those elders, ‘Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?’

10We also asked them their names so that we might notify you, and so that we might record the names of the men in charge.

11They replied, ‘We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are rebuilding the temple which was erected many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.