8. I was very angry and threw all of Tobiah’s household furniture out of the room.
9. Then I gave orders that the rooms be purified, and I put back the temple equipment, along with the grain offering and the incense.
10. I also found out that the Levites hadn’t been given their portions, so they and the singers who did the work had gone back to their fields.
11. So I scolded the officials, asking, "Why is God’s house being neglected?" I gathered them together and set them in their stations.
12. Then all Judah brought the tenth-part gifts of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.