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.
11. I reprimanded the officials for letting the Temple be neglected. And I brought the Levites and musicians back to the Temple and put them to work again.
12. Then all the people of Israel again started bringing to the temple storerooms their tithes of corn, wine, and olive oil.