however our God turned the curse into a blessing. 013:003 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. 013:004 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah, 013:005 had prepared for him a great chamber, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests. 013:006 But in all this [time] I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king, 013:007 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. 013:008 It grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. 013:009 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and there brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense. 013:010 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, were fled everyone to his field. 013:011 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? I gathered them together, and set them in their place. 013:012 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the treasuries. 013:013 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers. 013:014 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don't wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the observances of it. 013:015 In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food. 013:016 There lived men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. 013:017 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day? 013:018 Didn't your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all