Nehemiah 13:8

and it is very displeasing to me, and I cast all the vessels of the house of Tobiah outside, out of the chamber,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.

In Context

7and I come to Jerusalem, and understand concerning the evil that Eliashib has done for Tobiah, to make to him a chamber in the courts of the house of God,

9and I command, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back there the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.

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Cross References

Ezra 10:1And at Ezra’s praying, and at his making confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there have been gathered to him out of Israel a very great assembly—men and women and children—for the people have wept, multiplying weeping.

Psalms 69:9For [my] zeal for Your house has consumed me, || And the reproaches of Your reproachers || Have fallen on me.

John 2:13And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:2-10

The People's Attention to Their Duty. ( b. c. 444.) 1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; 2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. 3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all… Read the whole commentary →

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