Nehemiah 13:5–12

^13:5He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping⁵ the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

^13:6During all this time I was not in Jerusalem,⁶ for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time⁷ I had requested leave of the king, ^13:7and I returned to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by supplying him with a storeroom in the courts of the temple of God. ^13:8I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom. ^13:9Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment⁸ of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.

^13:10I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields. ^13:11So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions.⁹

^13:12Then all of Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms.