Ezra 5:12

5:12 But after our ancestors ¹  angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands ²  of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon. ³ 

Ezra 9:14

9:14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?

[5:12]  ¹ tn Aram “fathers.”

[5:12]  ² tn Aram “hand” (singular).

[5:12]  ³ sn A reference to the catastrophic events of 586 b.c.