APOCRYPHA TOBIT 14

Tobit 14

4 Lessons of Tobit to his son. 5 He prophecies the destruction of Nineve. 7 And the restoring of Jerusalem and the Temple. 13 The death of Tobias, and his wife. 16 Tobias age and death.

SO Tobit made an end of praising God.

And he was eight and fifty years old, when he lost his sight, which was restored to him after eight years, and he gave alms, and he continued to fear the Lord God, and to praise him.

And when he was very aged, he called his son, and six of his son’s sons, and said to him, My son, take thy children (for behold, I am aged, and am ready to depart out of this life)

Go into Media, my son: for I believe that those things which Ionas the Prophet spoke of Nineve, that it shall be destroyed, and for a time peace shall rather be in Media, and that our brethren shall be scattered in the earth from that good land, and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the House of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time.

Yet again God will have pity on them and bring them again into the land where they shall build a Temple, but not like the first, until the times of that age be fulfilled, which being fulfilled, they shall return from every place out of captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the House of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building, as the Prophets have spoken thereof.

And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.

So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall confess God, and the Lord shall exalt his people, and all those which love the Lord in truth and justice, shall rejoice, and those also which show mercy to our brethren.

And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those things which the Prophet Jonas spoke, shall surely come to pass.

But keep thou the Law, and the commandments, and show thyself merciful and just that it may go well with thee.

And bury me honestly, and thy mother with me: but tarry no longer at Nineve. Remember, my son, how a man handled Achiacharus that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he rewarded him again: yet Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his reward: for he went down into darkness. Manassas gave alms, and escaped the snare of death, which they had set for him, but Aman fell into the snare and perished.

Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doth, and how righteousness does deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty year old, and he buried him honorably.

And when Anna was dead, he buried her with his father: but Tobias went with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel and Tobit his father.

And he died at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundred and seven and twenty years old.

But before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which was taken by Nebuchadnezzar and Assuerus, and before his death, he rejoiced for Nineve.