Nehemiah 13:4-14 - Nehemiah Brings Reform

⁴ And before this, Eliashib the priest, who was set over the rooms of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah. ⁵ and he had prepared for himself a large room where they had in days of old laid the food offering, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the offerings of the priests.

⁶ But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem. For in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I came to the king. And after some days I was given permission to leave the king. ⁷ And I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil which Eliashib did for Tobiah in preparing him a room in the courts of the house of God. ⁸ And it grieved me very much. And I threw all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room. ⁹ Then I commanded, and they purified the rooms. And I brought there again the vessels of the house of God, with the food offering and the frankincense. ¹⁰ And I saw that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them; for the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each one to his field. ¹¹ And I contended with the rulers and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place. ¹² And all Judah brought the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil into the treasuries. ¹³ And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah. And next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah. For they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute to their brothers.

¹⁴ Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices of it.