Nehemiah 13:4–10

⁴And before this Eliashib the priest, appointed over chambers of the house of our God, is a relation of Tobiah, ⁵and he maketh for him a great chamber, and there they were formerly putting the present, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, the new wine, and the oil—the commanded thing of the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers—and the heave-offering of the priests. ⁶And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon did I come unto the king, and at the end of days I have asked of the king, ⁷and I come in to Jerusalem, and understand concerning the evil that Eliashib hath done for Tobiah, to make to him a chamber in the courts of the house of God, ⁸and it is very displeasing to me, and I cast all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without, out of the chamber, ⁹and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.

¹⁰And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field—the Levites and the singers, doing the work.