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What is Tobit 7 about?

Arriving at Raguel's house in Ecbatana, the travelers are welcomed warmly, and Raguel marvels at how much Tobias resembles his kinsman Tobit. Tobias asks at once for Sarah's hand, and Raguel, though he honestly discloses the seven deaths, gives her according to the law of Moses and draws up the marriage contract. He blesses the pair, calls for a feast, and prepares the bridal chamber, while Sarah is brought in and given to her kinsman. The meeting brings the two afflicted houses together in lawful marriage, advancing the deliverance the story has promised through God's ordering of events.

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 7
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 7

Tobit Chapter 7
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What is Tobit 7 about?

Arriving at Raguel's house in Ecbatana, the travelers are welcomed warmly, and Raguel marvels at how much Tobias resembles his kinsman Tobit. Tobias asks at once for Sarah's hand, and Raguel, though he honestly discloses the seven deaths, gives her according to the law of Moses and draws up the marriage contract. He blesses the pair, calls for a feast, and prepares the bridal chamber, while Sarah is brought in and given to her kinsman. The meeting brings the two afflicted houses together in lawful marriage, advancing the deliverance the story has promised through God's ordering of events.