¹⁰ I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers who had conducted the service had gone back to their fields.^{(A) 11} So I contended with the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.^{(B) 12} Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.^{(C) 13} And I appointed as treasurers over the treasuries Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan son of Zaccur son of Mattaniah, for they were considered faithful, and their duty was to distribute to their associates.^{(D) 14} Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.^(E)