5:16 Then this Sheshbazzar went and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem. From that time to the present moment 1 it has been in the process of being rebuilt, although it is not yet finished.’
Ezra 5:12
5:12 But after our ancestors 2 angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands 3 of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. 4
1 tnAram “from then and until now.”
2 tnAram “fathers.”
3 tnAram “hand” (singular).
4 sn A reference to the catastrophic events of 586 b.c.