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Nehemiah 13:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room. "

Nehemiah 13:8

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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.

8 It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.

9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.

10 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.

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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 13:5

"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."

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,"

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