'Asked' in the Bible

Then we asked those elders, ‘Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?’

We also asked them their names so that we might notify you, and so that we might record the names of the men in charge.

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law (the five books) of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given; and the king granted him everything that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.