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What is Tobit 14 about?

Old and near the end, Tobit gives his son final instructions, warning him to leave Nineveh because the prophets have foretold its ruin, and to settle in Media where safety lies. He blesses God once more, dies at a great age, and is honorably buried, and Anna is later laid beside him. Tobias departs for Ecbatana, cares for Raguel and Sarah's parents in their old age, and lives to hear that Nineveh has indeed fallen before he dies himself, praising God. The book closes with the pious rewarded, the wicked city judged, and the long life of the merciful held up as the fruit of faithfulness and almsgiving in exile.

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 14
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 14

Tobit Chapter 14
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What is Tobit 14 about?

Old and near the end, Tobit gives his son final instructions, warning him to leave Nineveh because the prophets have foretold its ruin, and to settle in Media where safety lies. He blesses God once more, dies at a great age, and is honorably buried, and Anna is later laid beside him. Tobias departs for Ecbatana, cares for Raguel and Sarah's parents in their old age, and lives to hear that Nineveh has indeed fallen before he dies himself, praising God. The book closes with the pious rewarded, the wicked city judged, and the long life of the merciful held up as the fruit of faithfulness and almsgiving in exile.