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What is Tobit 10 about?

As the days of feasting stretch on, Tobit counts the time anxiously at home in Nineveh, and Anna gives her son up for dead and refuses to be comforted. Tobias, mindful of his parents' grief, presses Raguel to release him, and though his father-in-law would keep him longer, he consents. Raguel gives Sarah half of all he owns and sends the couple off with blessings, charging Tobias to honor her parents as his own. Husband and wife set out for Nineveh, the reunion of the exiled family drawing near under the providence that has guarded every step.

Historical backdrop

The tale is set among the exiles of the northern tribes, carried off to Nineveh when Assyria swallowed the kingdom of Israel and its ten tribes vanished into the empire. Nineveh sat astride the Tigris as the greatest city of the age, and the roads of Assyria ran east to Media, to Ecbatana beneath the Zagros and to Rages where a man might leave silver in trust against hard years. This is the world of the first great deportation, the dispersion that scattered Israel among the nations and taught it to be faithful far from the temple.

The Church Fathers on Tobit 10
Deuterocanon (Catholic & Orthodox) · Accepted as canonical Scripture by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions and included in the original 1611 KJV (between the Old and New Testaments). Not in the Protestant 66-book canon. Read with the same care you bring to other Scripture, conscious that Protestants and Catholics weigh its authority differently.

Tobit 10

Tobit Chapter 10
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What is Tobit 10 about?

As the days of feasting stretch on, Tobit counts the time anxiously at home in Nineveh, and Anna gives her son up for dead and refuses to be comforted. Tobias, mindful of his parents' grief, presses Raguel to release him, and though his father-in-law would keep him longer, he consents. Raguel gives Sarah half of all he owns and sends the couple off with blessings, charging Tobias to honor her parents as his own. Husband and wife set out for Nineveh, the reunion of the exiled family drawing near under the providence that has guarded every step.