So I rebuked the officials and asked, “Why has the house of God been neglected?” Then I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts,
For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where th
I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take
Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go o
Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with con
When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.