Nehemiah 13:8-11
13:8 I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom.
13:9 Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment 1 of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.
13:10 I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.
13:11 So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions. 2
Nehemiah 13:17
13:17 So I registered a complaint with the nobles of Judah, saying to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?
Nehemiah 13:25
13:25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying, “You will not marry off 3 your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
Nehemiah 13:28
13:28 Now one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I banished him from my sight.
1 tn On the usage of this Hebrew word see HALOT 478-79 s.v. כְּלִי.
2 tn Heb “and I stood them on their standing.”
3 tn Heb “give.”