Ezra 4:2-3

2they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; 1and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of 2Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.” 3But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “3You have nothing in common with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves will together build to the Lord God of Israel, 4as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.”