Teks -- Nehemiah 13:8 (NET)

13:8 I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom.

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Wesley: Neh 13:8 - Grieved me

That so sacred a place should be polluted by one who in many respects ought not to come there, being no priest, a stranger, an Ammonite, and one of the worst of that people; and that all this should be done by the permission and order of the high-priest.

JFB: Neh 13:6-9 - 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 have dared to attempt during the residence of the pious governor. Nehemiah resided twelve years as governor of Jerusalem, and having succeeded in repairing and refortifying the city, he at the end of that period returned to his duties in Shushan. How long [Nehemiah] remained there is not expressly said, but "after certain days," which is a Scripture phraseology for a year or a number of years, he obtained leave to resume the government of Jerusalem; to his deep mortification and regret, he found matters in the neglected and disorderly state here described. Such gross irregularities as were practised, such extraordinary corruptions as had crept in, evidently imply the lapse of a considerable time. Besides, they exhibit the character of Eliashib, the high priest, in a most unfavorable light; for while he ought, by his office, to have preserved the inviolable sanctity of the temple and its furniture, his influence had been directly exercised for evil; especially he had given permission and countenance to a most indecent outrage--the appropriation of the best apartments in the sacred building to a heathen governor, one of the worst and most determined enemies of the people and the worship of God. The very first reform Nehemiah on his second visit resolved upon, was the stopping of this gross profanation [by Eliashib]. The chamber which had been polluted by the residence of the idolatrous Ammonite was, after undergoing the process of ritual purification (Num 15:9), restored to its proper use--a storehouse for the sacred vessels.

Clarke: Neh 13:8 - I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah

I 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.

TSK: Neh 13:8 - it grieved // I cast

it grieved : Ezr 9:3, Ezr 9:4, Ezr 10:1; Psa 69:9

I cast : Mar 11:15-17; Joh 2:13-17

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Poole: Neh 13:8 - It grieved me sore

It grieved me sore that so sacred a place should be polluted by one who in many respects ought not to have come there, being no priest, a stranger, an Ammonite, and one of the worst of that people; and that all this should be done by the permission and order of the high priest, who by his office should have punished and reformed these things in others.

Haydock: Neh 13:8 - And I

And I. Nehemias acted as governor, and performed the duty which the high priest neglected. (Calmet)

Gill: Neh 13:8 - And it grieved me sore // therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber

And it grieved me sore,.... That such a sacred place should be converted to common use, and to that of an Heathen, and of an enemy to the Jews and their religion:

therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber; as being chief magistrate, and acting by commission under the king of Persia, and to regulate everything amiss, according to the Jewish laws, as well as those of the king, his power being, no doubt, as large as Ezra's, Ezr 7:25, by "household stuff" is meant what is movable in the house, as chairs, tables, vessels for dressing, caring, drinking, &c. there are various opinions about this with the ancients ^e.