6. I was not in Jerusalem when this happened. I had gone back to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year he was king. Finally I asked the king to let me leave.
7. When I returned to Jerusalem, I found out the evil Eliashib had done by letting Tobiah have a room in the Temple courtyard.
8. I was very upset at this, so I threw all of Tobiah’s goods out of the room.
9. I ordered the rooms to be purified, and I brought back the utensils for God’s Temple, the grain offerings, and the incense.
10. Then I found out the people were not giving the Levites their shares. So the Levites and singers who served had gone back to their own farms.