The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Tobit 14
1 Then Tobit finished giving thanks.
2 He was fifty-eight years old when he
lost his sight. After eight years, he received
it again. He gave alms and he feared the
Lord God more and more, and gave thanks
to him.
3 Now he grew very old; and he called his
son with the six sons of his son, and said
to him, “My child, take your sons. Behold,
I have grown old, and am ready to depart
out of this life.
4 Go into Media, my child, for I surely
believe all the things which Jonah the
prophet spoke of Nineveh, that it will be
overthrown, butin Media there will rather
be peace for a season. Our kindred will be
scattered in the earth from the good land.
Jerusalem will be desolate, and the house
of God in it will be burned up, and will be
desolate for a time.
5 God will again have mercy on them,
and bring them back into the land, and
they will build the house, but not like to
the former house, until the times of that
age are fulfilled. Afterward they will return
from the places of their captivity, and
build up Jerusalem with honor. The house
of God will be built in it forever with a
glorious building, even as the prophets spoke
concerning it.
6 And all the nations will turn to fear the
Lord God truly, and will bury their idols.
7 All the nations will bless the Lord, and
his people will give thanks to God, and the
Lord will exalt his people; and all those
who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness
will rejoice, showing mercy to our kindred.
8 And now, my child, depart from Nineveh,
because those things which the prophet Jonah
spoke will surely come to pass.
9 But you must keep the law and the
ordinances, and show yourself merciful
and righteous,thatit may be well with you.
10 Bury me decently, and your mother
with me. Don’t stay at Nineveh. See, my
child, what Aman did to Achiacharus who
nourishedhim, how out oflighthe brought
him into darkness, and all the recompense
that he made him. Achiacharus was saved, but the
other had his recompense, and
he went down into darkness. Manasses
gave alms, and escaped the snare of death
whichhe setforhim; but Amanfellinto the
snare, and perished.
11 And now, my children, consider what
alms does, and how righteousness delivers.”
While he was saying these things, he
gave up the ghost in the bed; but he was
one hundred fifty eight years old. Tobias
buried him magnificently.
12 When Anna died, he buried her with
his father. But Tobias departed with his
wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his
father-in-law,
13 and he grew old in honor, and he
buried his father-in-law and mother-inlaw
magnificently, and he inherited their
possessions, and his father Tobit’s.
14 He died at Ecbatana of Media, being
one hundred twenty seven years old.
15 Before he died, he heard of the destruction
of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus
took captive. Before his death, he rejoiced over Nineveh.