1 Esdras 5:67-69

Common English Bible

⁶⁷ Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the leaders of the family houses in Israel, however, said to them, “We will have nothing to do with each other in building the house for the Lord our God. ⁶⁸ We alone will build it for the Lord of Israel, just as Persia’s King Cyrus commanded us.” ⁶⁹ But the neighboring peoples harassed the Judeans and hindered their rebuilding.