contend.

Nehemiah 13:17, 25
Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, "What is this evil you are doing--profaning the Sabbath day? . . .

Nehemiah 5:6-13
When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry, . . .

Job 31:34
because I greatly feared the crowds, and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside--

Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.

Why is the house.

Nehemiah 10:39
For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God."

1 Samuel 2:17
Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD's offering with contempt.

Malachi 3:8-11
"Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me!" You ask, "How do we rob You?" "In tithes and offerings. . . .

place.