Nehemiah 13:8

I was very angry and I threw all Tobiah's household articles out of the storeroom.

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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 returned to Jerusalem. I understood the evil that Eliashib had done by giving Tobiah a storeroom in the courts of the house of God.

9I ordered that they purify the storerooms, and I put back in them the articles of the house of God, the grain offerings, and the incense.

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Cross References

Ezra 10:1As Ezra prayed and confessed, he wept and threw himself down before God's house. A very great assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered to him, for the people were weeping very greatly.

Psalms 69:9For the zeal of your house has eaten me up, 1 and the rebukes of those who rebuke you have fallen on me. 1

John 2:13Now 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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