Tobit 14:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 He was sixty-two years old when he lost his eyesight, and after he was cured he lived a happy life, gave alms, and continually blessed God and proclaimed his greatness.
3 Prior to his death, he summoned his son Tobiah and Tobiah’s seven sons, and issued these instructions: 4 “My son, take your children and hasten to Media, for I believe the word of God that Nahum spoke about Nineveh. It will all take place. Everything will happen to Assyria and Nineveh that was spoken by the prophets of Israel sent by God. None of their words will be unfulfilled; everything will occur at the appointed time. You will be safer in Media than in Assyria or Babylon. For I know and believe that whatever God has said will be accomplished. Not a single word of the prophecies will remain unfulfilled.
“All of our kindred who dwell in Israel will be scattered and carried off in exile out of that good land. The whole territory of Israel, even Samaria and Jerusalem, will be desolate. The temple of God there will be burned to the ground, and for a period of time it will be abandoned.[a] Read full chapter
Footnotes
- Tobit 14:4 See Nah 2–3; and also Isa 10:12-19. Nineveh fell in 612 B.C. at the hands of the Medes and Babylonians; Samaria, in 721 B.C.; Jerusalem, in 587 B.C. Note that the action of the Book is situated during the apogee of the Assyrian Empire (middle of the seventh century B.C.).
