6And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon did I come unto the king, and at the end of days I have asked of the king,
7and I come in to Jerusalem, and understand concerning the evil that Eliashib hath done for Tobiah, to make to him a chamber in the courts of the house of God,
8and it is very displeasing to me, and I cast all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without, out of the chamber,
9and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.
10And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field -- the Levites and the singers, doing the work.
11And I strive with the prefects, and say, `Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?` and I gather them, and set them on their station;
12and all Judah have brought in the tithe of the corn, and of the new wine, and of the oil, to the treasuries.
