Nehemiah 13:8-11

13:8 I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom. 13:9 Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment ¹  of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.

13:10 I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields. 13:11 So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions. ² 

[13:9]  ¹ tn On the usage of this Hebrew word see HALOT 478-79 s.v. כְּלִי.

[13:11]  ¹ tn Heb “and I stood them on their standing.”