Nehemiah 13:10-20

10 I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields.
11 So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?” Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.
12 All Judah brought the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms.
13 I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because they were considered trustworthy. They were made responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.
14 Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.
15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.
16 People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah.
17 I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day?
18 Didn’t your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath.”
19 When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.
20 Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem.

Cross References 12

  • 1. S Deuteronomy 12:19
  • 2. S 2 Chronicles 31:4
  • 3. S Nehemiah 10:37-39; Haggai 1:1-9; Malachi 3:8-9
  • 4. S 2 Chronicles 31:6
  • 5. S Deuteronomy 18:8; 1 Kings 7:51; S 2 Chronicles 31:5; S Nehemiah 10:37-39; Malachi 3:10
  • 6. S Nehemiah 12:44; Acts 6:1-5
  • 7. S Genesis 8:1; S 2 Kings 20:3
  • 8. Exodus 20:8-11; S Exodus 34:21; Deuteronomy 5:12-15; Nehemiah 10:31
  • 9. S Nehemiah 10:31
  • 10. Jeremiah 44:23
  • 11. S Nehemiah 10:31; Jeremiah 17:21-23
  • 12. Leviticus 23:32
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