Nehemiah 13:5–12

⁵and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes^a of grain, new wine and olive oil prescribed for the Levites, musicians and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.

⁶But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes^b king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission ⁷and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib^c had done in providing Tobiah^d a room in the courts of the house of God. ⁸I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.^{e 9}I gave orders to purify the rooms,^f and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.^g

¹⁰I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them,^h and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields.^{i 11}So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?”^j Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.

¹²All Judah brought the tithes^k of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms.^l