We also asked them their names to inform you, that we might write the names of the men who were chief among them.
Ezra 5:10
Surrounding context
5:9 Then we asked those elders, and spoke thus to them: "Who commanded you to build this temple and to finish these walls?"
5:10 We also asked them their names to inform you, that we might write the names of the men who were chief among them.
5:11 And thus they returned us an answer, saying: "We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.