³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, ^(A)“You may do nothing with us to build a ^[a]house for our God; but we alone will build to the Lord God of Israel, as ^(B)King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

¹⁶ And it happened, ^(A)when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for ^(B)they perceived that this work was done by our God.