8. I was very upset at this. I threw all of Tobiah’s goods out of the room.
9. I ordered the rooms to be purified. And I brought back the things 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 to their own farms.
11. So I argued with the officers. I said, “Why haven’t you taken care of the Temple?” Then I gathered the Levites and singers. I put them back at their places.
12. Then all the people of Judah brought a tenth of what they had gained in grain, new wine and olive oil. And they brought it to the storerooms.