Nehemiah 13:6-9

6 While this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, because in the thirty-second year that Artaxerxes was king of Babylon I had gone back to report to him. After some time I received his permission
7 and returned to Jerusalem. There I was shocked to find that Eliashib had allowed Tobiah to use a room in the Temple.
8 I was furious and threw out all of Tobiah's belongings.
9 I gave orders for the rooms to be ritually purified and for the Temple equipment, grain offerings, and incense to be put back.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. artaxerxes: [As emperor of Persia, Artaxerxes also had the title "King of Babylon."]
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.