Nehemiah 13:8-11

Leeser(i) 8 And it displeased me greatly: wherefore I cast forth all the household vessels of Tobiyah away out of the chamber. 9 And I gave the order, whereupon they cleansed the chambers; and I had brought thither again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat-offering and the frankincense. 10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: so that the Levites and the singers, that used to do the work, were fled every one to his field. 11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why hath the house of God become forsaken? And I gathered them together, and placed them on their posts.