Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;
Many years later, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, sent by the king of Persia, sent the descendants of the priests who had hidden the fire to look for it. But instead of fire, they reported finding only thick water.
