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Tobit 1:19-21
Common English Bible
Tobit 1:19-21
Common English Bible
19 A native Ninevite went to the king and told him that I was the one burying the bodies. So I went into hiding. When I found out[a] that I was being hunted down to be put to death, I fled from the city in fear. 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.
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- Tobit 1:19 Gk adds that the king was aware of me and
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