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Nehemja 13:8
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it grieved: Ezra 9:3, Ezra 9:4, Ezra 10:1, Psalms 69:9
I cast: Mark 11:15-17, John 2:13-17
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:6 - General Proverbs 24:25 - them Proverbs 28:4 - but Ecclesiastes 9:10 - thy hand Jeremiah 35:2 - into one Mark 3:5 - grieved
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it grieved me sore,.... That such a sacred place should be converted to common use, and to that of an Heathen, and of an enemy to the Jews and their religion:
therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber; as being chief magistrate, and acting by commission under the king of Persia, and to regulate everything amiss, according to the Jewish laws, as well as those of the king, his power being, no doubt, as large as Ezra's, Ezra 7:25, by "household stuff" is meant what is movable in the house, as chairs, tables, vessels for dressing, caring, drinking, &c. there are various opinions about this with the ancients e.
e Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 1. c. 19.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Nehemiah 13:8. I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah — He acted as Jesus Christ did when he found the courts of the Lord's house profaned: He overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold doves.
