Verse 11
Nehemiah 13:11
Free Bible Version
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Everyone in Judah then brought the tithes of grain, new wine, and olive oil into the storerooms.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וָ/אָרִ֨יבָ/ה֙ אֶת הַ/סְּגָנִ֔ים וָ/אֹ֣מְרָ֔/ה מַדּ֖וּעַ נֶעֱזַ֣ב בֵּית הָ/אֱלֹהִ֑ים וָֽ/אֶ֨קְבְּצֵ֔/ם וָֽ/אַעֲמִדֵ֖/ם עַל עָמְדָֽ/ם
English Translation
And I will argue with the officials, and I said, "Why have you forsaken the house of God?" And I will gather them, and I will set them upon their stands.
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Chapter 13 Context
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One day when the Book of Moses was being read to the people, the section was found where it was writ...
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because they hadn't brought food and water when they met the Israelites, but instead they had hired...
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When the people heard about this law, they separated out from Israel everyone who had foreign ancest...
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Before all this, Eliashib the priest, who was related to Tobiah, had been put in charge of the store...
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He had provided Tobiah with a large room which had previously been used to store the grain offerings...
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When all this happened I was not in Jerusalem because I had returned to King Artaxerxes of Babylon i...
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7
I was extremely upset, and I went and threw out everything that was in Tobiah's room.
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8
I ordered the rooms purified, and put back the Temple items, the grain offerings, and the incense.
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9
I also found out that the food allowances for the Levites were not being provided, so the Levites ha...
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10
I went and confronted the leaders, asking, “Why is God (Elohim)'s Temple being neglected?” I called...
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11
Everyone in Judah then brought the tithes of grain, new wine, and olive oil into the storerooms.
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I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah, one of the Levites, in charge of the stor...
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13
My God (Elohim), please remember me over this. Please don't forget my good deeds I have done for the...
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14
Around that time I noticed people treading the winepress on Sabbath. I saw others collecting grain a...
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15
I confronted the Jewish leaders, asking them, “Why are you are doing such an evil thing? You are vio...
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16
So I ordered Jerusalem's gates to be shut at sunset on the day before the Sabbath, and that were not...
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17
I warned them, saying, “Why are you spending the night by the wall? If you do that again I'll have y...
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18
Then I told the Levites to purify themselves and to come and guard the gates to keep the Sabbath day...
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19
Around the same time I realized some Jews had married women from Ashdod, Moab, and Ammon.
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Half their children could only speak the language of Ashdod or that of another people, and didn't kn...
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21
So I confronted them and told them they were cursed. I beat some of them and pulled out their hair....
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22
Wasn't it marriages like these that made King Solomon of Israel sin? There wasn't a king in any nati...
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So do we have to hear about you committing this dreadful sin, how you are being unfaithful to our Go...
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Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, had become a son-in-law to Sanbal...
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My God (Elohim), remember them and what they did, violating the priesthood and the solemn agreement...
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I purified them from everything foreign, and I made sure the priests and Levites were carrying out t...
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I also arranged for wood to be supplied for the altar at the specified times, and for the first part...
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