Nehemiah 13:8

Nehemiah 13:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
• New International Version (NIV)I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And it grieved me bitterly; therefore I threw all the household goods of Tobiah out of the room.

Context of Nehemiah 13:8

6But when this happened, I was not in Jerusalem. In the 32nd year that King Artaxerxes ruled in Babylon, I had returned to visit him. After I had been there for some time, I asked the king to let me return to Jerusalem. 7When I arrived back in Jerusalem, I heard about the evil thing that Eliashib had done. He had given Tobiah a large room in the yards of God's temple. I was very angry, so I threw all Tobiah's things out of the room. 9I gave a command that they must make the rooms clean again. Then I put back the special plates and tools that they used in the temple. I also put back the grain offerings and the incense. 10I also discovered that there was no food that should have been there for the Levites. As a result, the Levites and the singers had returned to work in their fields. They were not doing their work in God's temple.

Nehemiah 13:8 word by word

וַיֵּ֥רַֽע לִ֖י מְאֹ֑ד וָֽאַשְׁלִ֜יכָה אֶֽת־כָּל־כְּלֵ֧י בֵית־טוֹבִיָּ֛ה הַח֖וּץ מִן־הַלִּשְׁכָּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And it grievedיָרַעyâra‛ · quiverH3415
• me soreמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966
• therefore I cast forthשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
• all the householdבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• stuffכְּלִיkelîy · article/utensilH3627
• of Tobiahטוֹבִיָּ֫הוּţôbîyâh ţôbîyâhû · TobiahH2900
• out ofחוּץchûts chûts · outsideH2351
• the chamberלִשְׁכָּהlishkâh · chamberH3957

Cross-references for Nehemiah 13:8

• Ezra 9:3When I heard this, I was very upset. I tore my shirt and my coat. I pulled out hair from my head and my beard. I was angry and ashamed. I sat down.
• Ezra 10:1Ezra continued to pray, in front of God's temple. He was asking God to forgive his people's sins. He was weeping, and he was bending down low to the ground. While he was doing that, a big crowd of Israelite people came around him. There were men, women and children. They were also weeping loudly.
• Psalms 69:9My love for your house burns inside me like a fire. Anybody who insults you, is also insulting me!
• Mark 11:15When they arrived back in Jerusalem, Jesus went into the yard of the temple. People were buying and selling things there. Jesus began to make them all leave that place. Some men were changing coins there for people. He pushed over their tables. And he pushed over the seats of the men who sold birds.
• John 2:13It was almost time for the Jewish Passover festival. So Jesus went to Jerusalem.

Commentaries on Nehemiah 13:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah - He acted as Jesus Christ did when he found the courts of the Lord's house profaned: He overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold doves.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-9I was greatly displeased...I ordered: When people rejected God's instructions, Nehemiah spoke up. Everything related to the temple had to be purified and dedicated to God. This included: The clothes that the priests and Levites wore (Exodus 29) The priests themselves (Leviticus 8–9) The temple building and altars (Leviticus 16:15–33) All the holy items (1 Chronicles 23:28) They were all purified (compare 2 Chronicles 29:5, 15–19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-96-9. But in all this was not I at Jerusalem--Eliashib (concluding that, as Nehemiah had departed from Jerusalem, and, on the expiry of his allotted term of absence, had resigned his government, he had gone not to return) began to use great liberties, and, there being none left whose authority or frown he dreaded, allowed himself to do things most unworthy of his sacred office, and which, though in unison with his own irreligious character, he would not…Read the comment

Topics related to Nehemiah 13:8

• Eliashib
• Minister, Christian
• Priest
• Tobiah
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

• Contend
• Outlandish
• Testify
• Understand
• Grief; Grieve
• Priest, High
• Stuff

Commentaries on Nehemiah 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings