6. While this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, because in the 32nd year that Artaxerxes was king of Babylon I had gone back to report to him. After some time I received his permission
7. and returned to Jerusalem. There I was shocked to find that Eliashib had allowed Tobiah to use a room in the Temple.
8. I was furious and threw out all Tobiah's belongings.
9. I gave orders for the rooms to be ritually purified and for the temple equipment, grain offerings, and incense to be put back.
10. I also learnt that the temple musicians and other Levites had left Jerusalem and gone back to their farms, because the people had not been giving them enough to live on.