While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for (A)in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes (B)king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, (C)preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture 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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