Nehemiah 13:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶ This happened in the thirty-second year that Artaxerxes^[a] ruled Babylonia. I was away from Jerusalem at the time, because I was visiting him. Later I received permission from the king ⁷ to return to Jerusalem. Only then did I find out that Eliashib had done this terrible thing of letting Tobiah have a room in the temple. ⁸ It upset me so much that I threw out every bit of Tobiah's furniture.