Nehemiah 13:8

8 I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.

Nehemiah 13:8 in Other Translations

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

8 And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber.

8 I became very upset and threw all of Tobiah’s belongings out of the room.

8 I was angry, really angry, and threw everything in the room out into the street, all of Tobiah's stuff.

8 I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah's household possessions out of the room.

Nehemiah 13:8 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 13:8

And it grieved me sore
That such a sacred place should be converted to common use, and to that of an Heathen, and of an enemy to the Jews and their religion:

therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the
chamber;
as being chief magistrate, and acting by commission under the king of Persia, and to regulate everything amiss, according to the Jewish laws, as well as those of the king, his power being, no doubt, as large as Ezra's, ( Ezra 7:25 Ezra 7:26 ) , by "household stuff" is meant what is movable in the house, as chairs, tables, vessels for dressing, caring, drinking there are various opinions about this with the ancients {e}.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 1. c. 19.

Nehemiah 13:8 In-Context

6 But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission

7 and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God.

8 I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.

9 I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.

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.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-17; Luke 19:45-46; John 2:13-16