Tobit 14:4
Good News Translation
"My son, take your children and go at once to Media. I believe that God's judgment which his prophet Nahum announced against Nineveh is about to take place. Everything that God's prophets told Israel about Nineveh and Assyria will happen. It will all come true, every word of it, when the right time comes. I am absolutely convinced that everything God has said is sure to come true. God does not break his promises. It will be safer for you in Media than in Assyria or Babylon. "Those Jews who live in Israel will all be scattered and taken from that good land into exile. All Israel will become a wasteland; Samaria and Jerusalem will be abandoned cities. God's Temple will be burned to the ground and will lie in complete ruin for a while.

New Revised Standard Version
and hurry off to Media, for I believe the word of God that Nahum spoke about Nineveh, that all these things will take place and overtake Assyria and Nineveh. Indeed, everything that was spoken by the prophets of Israel, whom God sent, will occur. None of all their words will fail, but all will come true at their appointed times. So it will be safer in Media than in Assyria and Babylon. For I know and believe that whatever God has said will be fulfilled and will come true; not a single word of the prophecies will fail. All of our kindred, inhabitants of the land of Israel, will be scattered and taken as captives from the good land; and the whole land of Israel will be desolate, even Samaria and Jerusalem will be desolate. And the temple of God in it will be burned to the ground, and it will be desolate for a while.

Contemporary English Version
and go to Media! I believe what God said when he told the prophet Nahum what will happen to Nineveh and Assyria. And time after time, God gave messages to other prophets in Israel, telling them what will happen. Every message they spoke will come true at the right time. You will be safe in Media, but not here in Assyria or in Babylonia. Our relatives, the people of Israel, will be taken from that good land and scattered in other countries. The whole land of Israel, including the cities of Samaria and Jerusalem, will be deserted. Even God's temple will suffer and lie in ashes for a while.

New American Bible
and flee into Media, for I believe God’s word that Nahum spoke against Nineveh. It will all happen and will overtake Assyria and Nineveh; indeed all that was said by Israel’s prophets whom God sent will come to pass. Not one of all their words will remain unfulfilled, but everything will take place in the time appointed for it. So it will be safer in Media than in Assyria or Babylon. For I know and believe that whatever God has said will be accomplished. It will happen, and not a single word of the prophecies will fail. As for our kindred who dwell in the land of Israel, they will all be scattered and taken into captivity from the good land. All the land of Israel will become a wilderness; even Samaria and Jerusalem will be a wilderness! For a time, the house of God will be desolate and will be burned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of the fear of God he departed in peace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of the fear of God he departed in peace.

Tobit 14:2
And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried honorably in Ninive.

Tobit 14:3
For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he recovered it again.

Tobit 14:5
And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them:

Tobit 14:6
The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord must be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the land of Israel, shall return to it.

Context
Tobit 14
3For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he recovered it again. 4And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of the fear of God he departed in peace. 5And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them:…
Cross References
Tobit 14:2
And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried honorably in Ninive.

Tobit 14:3
For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his eyes, and sixty when he recovered it again.

Tobit 14:5
And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and his children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them:

Tobit 14:6
The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord must be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the land of Israel, shall return to it.



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 14:3
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