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Nehemiah 13:8
And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels of the house of Tobias out of the storehouse.
Nehemiah 13:8 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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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.
And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
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In context
5 And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.
6 But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king, and after certain days I asked the king:
7 And I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the evil that Eliasib had done for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in the courts of the house of God.
8 And it seemed to me exceeding evil. And I cast forth the vessels of the house of Tobias out of the storehouse.
9 And I commanded and they cleansed again the vessels of the house of God, the sacrifice, and the frankincense.
10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: and that the Levites, and the singing men, and they that ministered were fled away every man to his own country:
11 And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why have we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I made them to stand in their places.
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