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But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes [Persian] king of Babylon I went to the king. Then later I asked leave of him

And came to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah in preparing him [an adversary] a chamber in the courts of the house of God!

And it grieved me exceedingly, and I threw all the house furnishings of Tobiah out of the chamber.

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But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes(A) king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib(B) had done in providing Tobiah(C) a room in the courts of the house of God. I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.(D)

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