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13 He treated his wife’s aging parents with great care and respect, and later he buried them in Ecbatana in Media.

Tobiah inherited the estate of Raguel as well as that of his father Tobit. 14 Greatly respected, he died at the age of one hundred and seventeen. 15 Before his death he heard of the destruction of Nineveh and witnessed the exile of the city’s inhabitants whom King Cyaxares[a] of Media had taken captive.

Tobiah praised God for everything he had inflicted on the inhabitants of Nineveh and Assyria. Before his death he rejoiced over the fate of Nineveh, and he blessed the Lord God forever and ever. Amen.

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Footnotes

  1. Tobit 14:15 Cyaxares established the power of Media by teaming with Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, to subdue the power of Nineveh, which they destroyed in 612 B.C.