Ezra 5:9
Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
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Ezra 5:9
Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
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Ezra 1:3
Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
Matthew 21:23
When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
Acts 4:7
When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
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Ezra 5:6
The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king follows.
Ezra 5:7
They sent a letter to him, in which was written: To Darius the king, all peace.
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Ezra 5:11
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.
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