Nehemiah 13:6-8

The Voice

⁶ I was not in Jerusalem when Eliashib did this. It was the 32nd year of the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Persia,^[a] and I had returned to make a report to him. Later on I asked his permission to return ⁷ to Jerusalem. When I arrived, I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done by giving Tobiah a room in the courts of the temple of the True God, a place he wasn’t even allowed to enter because of his heritage. ⁸ I was livid. In my anger, I threw all of Tobiah’s property out of the room.