Nehemiah 13:4-14 - Nehemiah Brings Reform

⁴ And before this, Eliashib the priest being given over the cells of the house of our God, being near to Tobiah: ⁵ And he will make for him a great cell, and there before them were given the gifts, the frankincense and the vessels, and the tenth of the grain of the new wine and the new oil, (the command of the Levites, and those singing, and the gate-keepers,) and the oblations of the priests.

⁶ And in all this I was not in Jerusalem: for in the thirty and second year to Arthasatha king of Babel, I came to the king, and at the end of days I asked for myself from the king: ⁷ And I shall come to Jerusalem, and I shall understand upon the evil which Eliashib did for Tobiah to prepare for him a cell in the enclosures of the house of God. ⁸ And it will be greatly evil to me: and I shall cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without from the cell. ⁹ And saying, and they will purify the cells: and I shall turn back there the vessels of the house of God, with the gift and the frankincense. ¹⁰ And I shall know that the portions of the Levites were not given: and they will flee a man to his field, the Levites and those singing, doing the work ¹¹ And I shall contend with the prefects, and say, Wherefore was the house of God forsaken? And I shall gather them together, and cause them to stand upon their standing. ¹² And all Judah brought the tenth of the grain and the new wine and the new oil to the treasuries. ¹³ And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah from the Levites: and upon their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah: for they were reckoned faithful: and upon them to divide out to their brethren.

¹⁴ Remember to me, O my God, concerning this, and thou wilt not wipe out my kindness which I did in the house of my God, and in its watches.