Dict: smith - TOB

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TOBADONIJAH - T>@ - (Adonijah the good), one of the Levites sent by Jehoshaphat through the cities of Judah to teach the law to the people. ( kjv@2Chronicles:17:8) (B.C. 910.)

TOB - T>@ - (good), The land of, a place in which Jephthah took refuge when expelled from home by his half-brother, kjv@Judges:11:3) and where he remained, at the head of a band of freebooters, till he was brought back by the sheikhs of Gilead. ver. 5. The narrative implies that the land of Tob was not far distant from Gilead; at the same time, from the nature of the case it must have lain out toward the eastern deserts. It is undoubtedly mentioned again in (2 Samuel 10:6-8) as Ishtob, i.e. man of Tob , meaning, according to a common Hebrew idiom, the men of Tob. After a long interval it appears again, in the Maccabaean history, 1 Macc. kjv@5:13, in the names Tobie and Tubieni. 2 Macc. 12:17. No identification of the ancient, district with any modern one has yet been attempted.

TOBIAH - T>@ - (goodness of Jehovah). "The children of Tobiah" were a family who returned with Zerubbabel, but were unable to prove their connection with Israel
kjv@Ezra:2:60; kjv@Nehemiah:7:62) (B.C. before 536.) "Tobiah the slave, the Ammonite," played a conspicuous part in the rancorous position made by Sanballat the Moabite and his adherents to the rebuilding of Jerusalem. (B.C. 446.) The two races of Moab and Ammon found in these men fit representatives of that hereditary hatred to the Israelites which began before the entrance into Caanan, and was not extinct when the Hebrews had ceased to exist as a nation. But Tobiah, though a slave, kjv@Nehemiah:2:10 kjv@Nehemiah:2:19)
unless, this is a title of opprobrium
and an Ammonite, found means to ally himself with a priestly family, and his son Johanan married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah. kjv@Nehemiah:6:18) He himself was the son-in-law of Shechaniah the son of Arah, kjv@Nehemiah:6:17) and these family relations created for him a strong faction among the Jews.

TOBIJAH - T>@ - (goodness of Jehovah). One of the Levites sent by Jehoshaphat, to teach the law in the cities of Judah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:17:8) (B.C. 910.) One of the captivity in the time of Zechariah, in whose presence the prophet ,as commanded to take crowns of silver and gold and put them on the head of Joshua the high priest. kjv@Zechariah:6:10 kjv@Zechariah:6:14) (B.C 519.)

TOBIT, BOOK OF - T>@ - a book of the Apocryphal which exists at present in Greek, Latin, Syriac and Hebrew texts, but it was probably written originally in Greek. The scene of the book is placed in Assyria, whither Tobit, a Jew, had been carried as a captive by Shalmaneser. It is represented and completed shortly after the fall of Nineveh (B.C. 606), Tob. 14:15, and written, in the main, some time before. Tob. 12:20. But the whole tone of the narrative bespeaks a later age and above all, the doctrine of good and evil spirits is elaborated in a form which belongs to a period considerably posterior to the Babylonian captivity. Asmodeus kjv@3:8; 6:14; kjv@8:3; Raphael 12:15. It cannot be regarded as a true history. It is a didactic narrative and its point lies in the moral lessons which it conveys, and not in the incidents. In modern times the moral excellence of the book has been rated highly, except in the heat of controversy. Nowhere else is there preserved so complete and beautiful a picture of the domestic life of the Jews after the return. Almost every family relation is touched upon with natural grace and affection. A doctrinal feature of the book is the firm belief in a glorious restoration of the Jewish people. Tob. 14:5; 13:9-18. But the restoration contemplated is national, and not the work of a universal Saviour. In all there is not the slightest trace of the belief in a personal Messiah.