Nehemiah 11:16

And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.

The verse belongs to Nehemiah's account of the remnant that returned to Jerusalem after the seventy years of captivity, including the covenant they entered into. In that setting the returned remnant stood before the opportunity to receive the promised blessings by seeking God. Israel as a whole did not put away its iniquities, and therefore did not enjoy the promise in its fullness during that dispensation. The failure was not lack of opportunity but lack of putting away sin, so the fullness of blessing was not realized then.