4. Give us the names of the workers!”
5. But God was looking after the Jewish leaders. So the governor and his group decided not to make the people stop working on the temple until they could report to Darius and get his advice.
6. Governor Tattenai, Shethar Bozenai, and their advisers sent a report to Darius,
7. which said:King Darius, we wish you the best!
8. We went to Judah, where the temple of the great God is being built with huge stones and wooden beams set in the walls. Everyone is working hard, and the building is going up fast.
9. We asked those in charge to tell us who gave them permission to rebuild the temple.
10. We also asked for the names of their leaders, so that we could write them down for you.
11. They claimed to be servants of the God who rules heaven and earth. And they said they were rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago by one of Israel's greatest kings.
12. We were told that their people had made God angry, and he let them be captured by Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king who took them away as captives to Babylonia. Nebuchadnezzar tore down their temple,