Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.
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Gill's Exposition
And I perceived that the portion of the Levites had not been given them,.... The tithes, being removed to some other place, might be converted to another use; or the people, seeing what was done by…
Barnes' Notes
The chambers - The “great chamber” assigned to Tobiah Neh 13:5 contained, it would seem, more than one apartment.
It was the honour of Israel, and the greatest preservation of their holiness, that they were a peculiar people, and were so to keep themselves, and not to mingle with the nations, nor suffer any of…
Cambridge Bible
they cleansed the chambers -they," impersonal. -The chambers," more than one had been desecrated for the purpose of supplying Tobiah with -a great chamber."
the vessels … meat(R.V. meal-) offering ……
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