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Nehemiah 13:8
And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
Nehemiah 13:8 · Berean Standard Bible
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Nehemiah 13:8 in other translations
And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
It grieved me severely: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room.
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In context
5 and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
6 While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
7 to return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.
8 And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
9 Then I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored to them, along with the grain offerings and frankincense.
10 I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields.
11 So I rebuked the officials and asked, “Why has the house of God been neglected?” Then I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts,
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