Then contended I with the rulers I sharply reproved those priests to whom the management of those things was committed, for the neglect of their duty, and breach of their late solemn promise. Why is the house of God forsaken? So that there are few or no Levites or priests to attend there. You have not only injured men, in withholding their dues, but you have occasioned the neglect of God's house and service, insomuch that little or no public worship is maintained. And I gathered them together To Jerusalem, from their several country possessions. And set them in their place Restored them to the exercise of their office. “A Levite in his field,” says Henry, “is out of his station: God's house is his place, and there let him be found. Say to Archippus, Take heed to thy ministry.”

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