Ezra 5:16

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 

[5:16]  ¹ tn Aram “from then and until now.”

[5:12]  ² tn Aram “fathers.”

[5:12]  ³ tn Aram “hand” (singular).

[5:12]  ⁴ sn A reference to the catastrophic events of 586 b.c.