The answer about the house built these many years ago, and the request for a search in the king’s treasure house

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Entry: The answer about the house built these many years ago, and the request for a search in the king’s treasure house (event-ezr-5-the-answer-and-the-search-in-the-treasure-house)
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Current wording: Ezra 5:11–17: the letter goes on, “Thus they returned us answer, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished. But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried the people away into Babylon. But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God. The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor. He said to him, “Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.” Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not completed. Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so that a decree was made by Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.’” These verses call those who answered only “they”; at 5:9–10 the senders ask the elders. WEB opens the answer at 5:11 and closes it only at the end of 5:17, so that 5:17 stands inside the answer; the Korean Revised Version closes the answer at the end of 5:16 (하였사오니), gives 5:17 as the words of those who sent the letter, and closes the letter there (하였더라). At 5:15, where WEB reads “He said to him”, the Korean Revised Version gives no subject (일러 가로되); 5:14 names Cyrus the king.
Cited evidence: EZR 5:11–17, engwebp
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