6. This happened in the thirty-second year that Artaxerxes ruled Babylonia. I was away from Jerusalem at the time, because I was visiting him. Later I received permission from the king
7. to return to Jerusalem. Only then did I find out that Eliashib had done this terrible thing of letting Tobiah have a room in the temple.
8. It upset me so much that I threw out every bit of Tobiah's furniture.
9. Then I ordered the room to be cleaned and the temple utensils, the grain offerings, and the incense to be brought back into the room.
10. I also found out that the temple singers and several other Levites had returned to work on their farms, because they had not been given their share of the harvest.
11. I called the leaders together and angrily asked them, “Why is the temple neglected?” Then I told them to start doing their jobs.
12. After this, everyone in Judah brought a tenth of their grain, wine, and olive oil to the temple storeroom.