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Nehemiah 13:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" had prepared for him a great room, where previously they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests. "

Nehemiah 13:5

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3 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,

5 had prepared for him a great room, where previously they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.

6 But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,

7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.

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Nehemiah 12:44

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"On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them according to the fields of the cities the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who served."

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1 Chronicles 9:29

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"Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices."

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2 Chronicles 35:10

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"So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment."

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2 Chronicles 31:11

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"Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the LORD’s house, and they prepared them."

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2 Maccabees 9:16

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"The holy sanctuary, which before he had plundered, he would adorn with the best offerings, and would restore all the sacred vessels many times multiplied, and out of his own revenues would defray the charges that were required for the sacrifices."

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Ezra 8:25

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"and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered."

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Nehemiah 13:1

"On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,"

Nehemiah 13:2

"because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them; however, our God turned the curse into a blessing."

Nehemiah 13:3

"It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel."

Nehemiah 13:4

"Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,"

Nehemiah 13:6

"But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,"

Nehemiah 13:7

"and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house."

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