Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation "My son, take your children and go at once to Media. I believe that God's judgment which his prophet Nahum announced against Nineveh is about to take place. Everything that God's prophets told Israel about Nineveh and Assyria will happen. It will all come true, every word of it, when the right time comes. I am absolutely convinced that everything God has said is sure to come true. God does not break his promises. It will be safer for you in Media than in Assyria or Babylon. "Those Jews who live in Israel will all be scattered and taken from that good land into exile. All Israel will become a wasteland; Samaria and Jerusalem will be abandoned cities. God's Temple will be burned to the ground and will lie in complete ruin for a while. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of the fear of God he departed in peace. Tobit 14:2And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried honorably in Ninive. Tobit 14:3 For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he recovered it again. Tobit 14:5 And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them: Tobit 14:6 The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord must be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the land of Israel, shall return to it. Context Tobit 14…3For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he recovered it again. 4And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of the fear of God he departed in peace. 5And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them:… Cross References Tobit 14:2 And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried honorably in Ninive. Tobit 14:3 For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he recovered it again. Tobit 14:5 And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them: Tobit 14:6 The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord must be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the land of Israel, shall return to it. |