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4 Now before this, Eliashib (God restores) the priest, a relative of Tobiah (YHWH is good), had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God {Elohenu} 5 and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests. 6 While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem (city of peace), because I had returned to Artaxerxes (I will make the spoiled to boil) king of Babylon (Persia) in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king 7 to return to Jerusalem (city of peace). Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib (God restores) had done on behalf of Tobiah (YHWH is good) by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God {Elohim}. 8 And I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s (YHWH is good) household goods out of the room. 9 Then I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God {Elohim} restored to them, along with the grain offerings and frankincense. Nehemiah 13:4-9, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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