^{4 Ref} Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied unto Tobiah,

^{5 Ref} had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.

^{6 Ref} But in all this `time' I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went unto the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king,

^{7 Ref} and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

^{8 Ref} And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.