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had provided him with a large room where they previously used to store the meal offerings, incense, utensils, tithes of corn, wine and oil, that is, the part of the Levites, singers and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests. (Nehemiah 13, 5)
While all this was going on I was away from Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had gone to see the king. But after some time I asked the king for permission to leave, (Nehemiah 13, 6)
and returned to Jerusalem, where I learned about the crime which Eliashib had committed for Tobiah's benefit, by providing him with a room in the courts of the Temple of God. (Nehemiah 13, 7)
I was extremely displeased and threw all Tobiah's household goods out of the room and into the street. (Nehemiah 13, 8)
I then gave orders for the room to be purified, and had the utensils of the Temple of God, the meal offerings and the incense, all replaced. (Nehemiah 13, 9)
As supervisors of the storehouses I appointed Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, Pedaiah one of the Levites and, as their assistant, Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, since they were considered reliable people; their duty was to make the distributions to their kinsmen. (Nehemiah 13, 13)
Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out the good deeds which I have done for the Temple of my God and its observances! (Nehemiah 13, 14)
So when the gates of Jerusalem were getting dark at the approach of the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and directed that they were not to be opened again until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my attendants at the gates to make sure that no merchandise was brought in on the Sabbath day. (Nehemiah 13, 19)
So the traders and dealers in goods of all kinds spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice, (Nehemiah 13, 20)
as regards their children, half of them spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, but could no longer speak the language of Judah. (Nehemiah 13, 24)
I reprimanded them, I cursed them, I struck several of them and tore out their hair and adjured them by God, 'You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons or let their daughters marry your sons, or marry them yourselves! (Nehemiah 13, 25)
And so I purged them of everything foreign; I drew up regulations for the priests and Levites, defining each man's duty, (Nehemiah 13, 30)
