7 When I arrived back in Jerusalem I discovered the dreadful thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courtyard of God’s Temple. 8 I was extremely upset, and I went and threw out everything that was in Tobiah’s room.
10 I also found out that the food allowances for the Levites were not being provided, so the Levites had gone back to take care of their fields, along with the singers who led the worship services.
15 Around that time I noticed people treading the winepress on Sabbath. I saw others collecting grain and loading it up on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, and bringing it all into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
23 Around the same time I realized some Jews had married women from Ashdod, Moab, and Ammon.
31 I also arranged for wood to be supplied for the altar at the specified times, and for the first part of the produce to be donated.
My God, remember me favorably.