Tobit 1:4
Good News Translation
When I was young, I lived in northern Israel. All the tribes in Israel were supposed to offer sacrifices in Jerusalem. It was the one city that God had chosen from among all the Israelite cities as the place where his Temple was to be built for his holy and eternal home. But my entire tribe of Naphtali rejected the city of Jerusalem and the kings descended from David.

New Revised Standard Version
When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was still a young man, the whole tribe of my ancestor Naphtali deserted the house of David and Jerusalem. This city had been chosen from among all the tribes of Israel, where all the tribes of Israel should offer sacrifice and where the temple, the dwelling of God, had been consecrated and established for all generations forever.

Contemporary English Version
When I was a young man in Israel, my tribe had already rejected the descendants of David as their kings. In fact, the people of Naphtali never went to Jerusalem to worship, even though that is where God's sacred temple had been built. The temple will be God's home forever, and so God said the tribes of Israel must go there to offer sacrifices to him.

New American Bible
When I lived as a young man in my own country, in the land of Israel, the entire tribe of my ancestor Naphtali broke away from the house of David, my ancestor, and from Jerusalem, the city that had been singled out of all Israel’s tribes that all Israel might offer sacrifice there. It was the place where the temple, God’s dwelling, had been built and consecrated for all generations to come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work.

Tobit 1:2
When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth,

Tobit 1:3
But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kindred.

Tobit 1:5
Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of Israel had made, he alone fled the company of all,

Tobit 1:6
And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his tithes,

Context
Tobit 1
3But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kindred. 4And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did he no childish thing in his work. 5Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of Israel had made, he alone fled the company of all,…
Cross References
Tobit 1:2
When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth,

Tobit 1:3
But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow captives, that were of his kindred.

Tobit 1:5
Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of Israel had made, he alone fled the company of all,

Tobit 1:6
And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his tithes,



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 1:3
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