27 Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women? ”
28 Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me.
29 Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
30 So I purified them from everything foreign and assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
31 I also arranged for the donation of wood at the appointed times and for the firstfruits. Remember me, my God, with favor.