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Nehemiah 13

After a period away from Jerusalem, Nehemiah returns and finds several reforms already breaking down. Tobiah has been given a room in the temple courts, Levites have not received their portions, merchants are violating the Sabbath, and mixed marriages again threaten covenant faithfulness. Nehemiah acts forcefully to correct each abuse and closes with repeated prayers that God remember him.

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After a period away from Jerusalem, Nehemiah returns and finds several reforms already breaking down. Tobiah has been given a room in the temple courts, Levites have not received their portions, merchants are violating the Sabbath, and mixed marriages again threaten covenant faithfulness. Nehemiah acts forcefully to correct each abuse and closes with repeated prayers that God remember him.

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1On that day they read in the book of Moses…2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread…3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the…4And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of…5And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where…6But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem:…7And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil…8And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all…9Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither…10And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had…11Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is…12Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and…13And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest,…14Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not…15In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine…16There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish,…17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said…18Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God…19And it came to pass, that when the gates of…20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware…21Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why…22And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves,…23In those days also saw I Jews that had married…24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod,…25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote…26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things?…27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this…28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of…29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the…30Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the…31And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for…