Berean Standard Bible
Nehemiah 13:4
“Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God”
In context
2Because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
3As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.
4Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
5And had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, along with the contributions for the priests.
6While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
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