Nehemiah 13:8

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

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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 came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

9Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither I brought again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat-offering and the frankincense.

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Cross References

Ezra 10:1Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled to him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very bitterly.

Psalms 69:9For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me.

John 2:13And the Jews' passover was at hand, 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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