6 While all of this was taking place, I wasn’t in Jerusalem. In the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes’ reign in Babylon, I returned to the king. Later, I asked the king for permission to return.
7 I went to Jerusalem and discovered the evil thing Eliashib had done by providing Tobiah with a room in God’s temple.
8 I was furious. So I threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
9 Then I told them to cleanse the rooms, and I put back in there the utensils from God’s temple, the offerings, and the incense.
10 I learned that the Levites had not been given their portions. So each of the Levites and singers, who conducted the worship ⌊in the temple⌋, had left for their own fields.
11 I reprimanded the leaders. “Why is God’s temple being neglected?” I asked. So I brought the Levites back together and put them back in their places of service.
12 Then all Judah brought a tenth of all the grain harvested, new wine, and olive oil to the storerooms.