Ezr 4:3 | NETfull | STEP | But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”

Ezra 4:3

3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, “You have no right ^{▼▼ Heb “not to you and to us.”} to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the Lord God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us.”