^{4 Ref} And before this Eliashib the priest, appointed over chambers of the house of our God, `is' a relation of Tobiah,

^{5 Ref} and he maketh for him a great chamber, and there they were formerly putting the present, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, the new wine, and the oil -- the commanded thing of the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers -- and the heave-offering of the priests.

^{6 Ref} And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon did I come unto the king, and at the end of days I have asked of the king,

^{7 Ref} and I come in to Jerusalem, and understand concerning the evil that Eliashib hath done for Tobiah, to make to him a chamber in the courts of the house of God,

^{8 Ref} and it is very displeasing to me, and I cast all the vessels of the house of Tobiah without, out of the chamber,

^{9 Ref} and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.

^{10 Ref} And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field -- the Levites and the singers, doing the work.

^{11 Ref} And I strive with the prefects, and say, `Wherefore hath the house of God been forsaken?' and I gather them, and set them on their station;

^{12 Ref} and all Judah have brought in the tithe of the corn, and of the new wine, and of the oil, to the treasuries.

^{13 Ref} And I appoint treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites; and by their hand `is' Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for stedfast they have been reckoned, and on them `it is' to give a portion to their brethren.

^{14 Ref} Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.