27. Must it also be heard of you that you have done this same terrible evil, betraying our God by marrying foreign women?”
28. One of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite! I drove him from my presence.
29. Remember against them, my God, how they defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites!
30. So I cleansed them of all foreign contamination. I established the various functions for the priests and Levites, so that each had an appointed task.
31. I also provided for the procurement of wood at stated times and for the first fruits. Remember this in my favor, my God!