Matthew Poole and continuators on Nehemiah 13:8

8 And it grieved me sore , therefore I cast forth all the houshold stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.

That so sacred a place should be polluted by one who in many respects ought not to have come there, being no Priest, a stranger, an Ammonite, and one of the worst of that People; and that all this should be done by the permission and order of the High-Priest, who by his Office should have punished and reformed these things in others.