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Tob 14:1 So Tobit made an
end of praising God.
Tob 14:2 And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight,
which was restored to him after eight years: and he gave alms, and he
increased in the fear of the Lord God, and praised him.
Tob 14:3 And when he was very aged he called his son, and the sons of his
son, and said to him, My son, take thy children; for, behold, I am aged,
and am ready to depart out of this life.
Tob 14:4 Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which
Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and that
for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie
scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be
desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be
desolate for a time;
Tob 14:5 And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again
into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to the first,
until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward they shall return
from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and
the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building,
as the prophets have spoken thereof.
Tob 14:6 And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and
shall bury their idols.
Tob 14:7 So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall
confess God, and the Lord shall exalt his people; and all those which love
the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, shewing mercy to our
brethren.
Tob 14:8 And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those things
which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass.
Tob 14:9 But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself
merciful and just, that it may go well with thee.
Tob 14:10 And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no
longer at Nineve. Remember, my son, how Aman handled Achiacharus that
brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he
rewarded him again: yet Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his
reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped
the snares of death which they had set for him: but Aman fell into the
snare, and perished.
Tob 14:11 Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doeth, and how
righteousness doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up the
ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty years old; and he
buried him honourably.
Tob 14:12 And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his
father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to
Raguel his father in law,
Tob 14:13 Where he became old with honour, and he buried his father and
mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his father
Tobit's.
Tob 14:14 And he died at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundred and seven and
twenty years old.
Tob 14:15 But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which
was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus: and before his death he rejoiced
over Nineve. |