And when I was come to Jerusalem, I understood [a]the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in that he had made him a chamber in the court of the house of God,

And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah out of the chamber.

And I commanded them to cleanse the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God with the meat offering and the incense.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:7 Thus we see to what inconveniences the people fall into, when they are destitute of one that hath the fear of God, seeing that their chief governor was but a while absent, and yet they fell into such great absurdities: as appeareth also, Exod. 32:1.

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