Nehemiah 13:4-9

International Standard Version

Tobiah Evicted from the Temple

⁴ Now prior to this, Eliashib the priest, who supervised the store rooms of the Temple of our God and who was related to Tobiah, ⁵ had prepared a great chamber for him, in the place where they used to place the grain offerings, incense, and vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil that was mandated for the descendants of Levi, the singers, the gate keepers, and the priests’ offerings. ⁶ During all of this time, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to the king in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon. After a while I obtained permission from the king ⁷ to return to Jerusalem. I learned of the evil thing that Eliashib had done for Tobiah in furnishing him with a room in the courts of the Temple of God. ⁸ I was greatly upset, so I threw out all of Tobiah’s property from the room. ⁹ I ordered them to purify the chambers, and then they brought back the vessels from the Temple of God, along with the grain offerings and incense.