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But in all this I was not in Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Arthasastha king of Babylon I came to the king, and after a certain time I made my request of the king;
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and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the mischief which Eliasib had done in the case of Tobias, in making for him a treasury in the court of the house of God.
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And it appeared very evil to me: so I cast forth all the furniture of the house of Tobias from the treasury.
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And I gave orders, and they purified the treasuries: and I restored thither the vessels of the house of God, the offerings, and the frankincense.
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And I understood that the portion of the Levites had not been given: and they had fled every one to his field, the Levites and the singers doing the work.
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And I strove with the commanders, and said, Wherefore has the house of God been abandoned? and I assembled them, and set them in their place.
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And all Juda brought a tithe of the wheat and the wine and the oil into the treasuries,
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to the charge of Selemia the priest, and Sadoc the scribe, and Phadaea of the Levites: and next to them Anan the son of Zacchur, son of Matthanias; for they were accounted faithful: their office to distribute to their brethren.
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Remember me, O God, in this, and let not my kindness be forgotten which I have wrought in the house of the Lord God.
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In those days I saw in Juda treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading asses with both wine, and grapes, and figs, and every burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath-day:
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and I testified in the day of their sale. Also their dwelt in it bringing fish, and selling every merchandise to the children of Juda and in Jerusalem on the sabbath.