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Nehemiah 13:4
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Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah,
Nehemiah 13:5
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and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.
Nehemiah 13:6
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But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission
Nehemiah 13:7
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and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God.
Nehemiah 13:8
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I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah's household goods out of the room.
Nehemiah 13:9
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I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.
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