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

6I was not in Jerusalem during all this, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king. After a period of time, I requested to take leave from the king 7and returned to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done by preparing a chamber for Tobiah in the courts of the House of God. It greatly displeased me, so I threw all of Tobiah’s household goods outside of the storeroom 9and commanded the storerooms to be cleansed. Then I restored the utensils of the House of God, the offerings and the frankincense. 10I also learned that the portions for the Levites had not been provided, and that each of the Levites and singers who performed the work had gone back to his own field.

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 report, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled out some of the hair from my head and from my beard. Then I sat down devastated.
• Ezra 10:1While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and prostrating himself before the House of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. The people also wept very bitterly.
• Psalms 69:9I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s children.
• Mark 11:15Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the Temple and started to drive out those selling and buying in the Temple. He overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those selling doves,
• John 2:13The Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Yeshua went up 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