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Nehemiah 13:8
It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
Nehemiah 13:8 · World English 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.
And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household goods 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 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.
6 But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,
7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.
8 It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.
10 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.
11 Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
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