Nehemiah 13:7

And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

And I came {H935} to Jerusalem {H3389}, and understood {H995} of the evil {H7451} that Eliashib {H475} did {H6213} for Tobiah {H2900}, in preparing {H6213} him a chamber {H5393} in the courts {H2691} of the house {H1004} of God {H430}.

and returned to Yerushalayim, where I found out about the terrible thing Elyashiv had done for Toviyah by preparing a room for him in the courtyards of the house of our God.

to return to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done on behalf of Tobiah by providing him a room in the courts of the house of God.

and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

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Cross-References

  • Nehemiah 13:5 (4 votes)

    And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded [to be given] to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.

  • Matthew 21:12 (3 votes)

    ¶ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

  • Matthew 21:13 (3 votes)

    And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

  • Acts 21:28 (2 votes)

    Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all [men] every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

  • Acts 21:29 (2 votes)

    (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

  • 1 Corinthians 1:11 (2 votes)

    For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them [which are of the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

  • Ezra 9:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.