Tobit 1:20-22

Common English Bible

²⁰ All my possessions were seized, and everything of mine became royal property except for my wife Anna and my son Tobias.

²¹ Within forty days Sennacherib was killed by two of his sons, who escaped to the mountains of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon became king in his place. He hired Ahikar, my brother Hanael’s son, to be in charge of all the financial accounts of his kingdom and all the king’s treasury records.

²² Ahikar petitioned the king on my behalf, and I returned to Nineveh. Ahikar had been the chief officer,^[a] the keeper of the ring with the royal seal, the auditor of accounts, and the keeper of financial records under Assyria’s King Sennacherib. And Esarhaddon promoted him to be second in charge after himself. Ahikar was my nephew and one of my family.