Upon reading the Law the people realized that Ammonites and Moabites should not be admitted into the assembly of God so they excluded from Israel all foreigners. Then while Nehemiah was away back with the king of Babylon, Eliashib the priest was given a room in the temple. When Nehemiah returned he was most upset by the news of the foreigner Tobiah haven been given a room in the temple and he threw out his belongings, purified the room and put the equipment and stores back in their rightful place. Nehemiah also discovered that the Levites were not being cared for correctly and he rebuked the officials and asked why the house of God was being neglected? This corrected the tithe-giving blip. However then Nehemiah noticed that people were working on the sabbath and engaging in commerce which he severely reprimanded. He locked the doors on the sabbath to enforce the keeping of the sabbath. Nehemiah also condemned the intermarriage occurring in Judah and he even beat up some men over the topic and pulled out their hair! Nehemiah closes his book asking God to remember him for his work.
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