Nehemiah Chapter 13

• Nehemiah 13:1
  Nehemiah.
• Nehemiah 13:2
  On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not ente...
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  because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them; however, our God turned the cu...
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  It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.
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  Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
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  had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine...
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  But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked l...
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  and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.
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  It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
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  Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.
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  I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his fiel...
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  Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
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  Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.
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  I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of ...
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  Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
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  In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all ...
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  Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
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  Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
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  Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbat...
• Nehemiah 13:20
  It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that th...
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  So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice.
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  Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, th...
• Nehemiah 13:23
  I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me for...
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  In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
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  and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
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  I contended with them, cursed them, struck certain of them, plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to ...
• Nehemiah 13:27
  Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him ki...
• Nehemiah 13:28
  Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
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  One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
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  Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
• Nehemiah 13:31
  Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
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  and for the wood offering, at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.