Nehemiah 13:5–12

⁵had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the oblations, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine and the oil, which was commanded for the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers, and the heave-offerings of the priests. ⁶And during all that time I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two-and-thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king; and after some time I obtained leave of the king. ⁷And I came to Jerusalem, and observed the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobijah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. ⁸And it grieved me much, and I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobijah out of the chamber. ⁹And I commanded, and they purified the chambers; and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, the oblation and the frankincense.

¹⁰And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given, and that the Levites and the singers that did the work had fled every one to his field. ¹¹Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place. ¹²And all Judah brought the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil into the storehouses.