6. While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to King Artaxerxes of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. It was only later that I asked the king for a leave of absence
7. so I could return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of God’s house.
8. I was greatly displeased and threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the room.
9. I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored there, along with the grain offering and frankincense.
10. I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given, each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.