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Tobias
Tobias is the protagonist of the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books (the Apocrypha) of the Old Testament, and the son of Tobit. Guided on a journey by the angel Raphael, he married Sarah and cured his blind father.
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- Book of TobitBible
The Book of Tobit tells the story of Tobit, a Jew living in Nineveh during the Assyrian exile, and his son Tobias. The Catholic and Orthodox churches accept it as part of the Old Testament, while most Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha (books outside the canon).
- TobitBible
Tobit is a book included in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles but classified by Protestants as part of the Apocrypha; it is also the name of the book's main character. The story is set in Nineveh during the Assyrian exile and features the angel Raphael.
- TobiahPeople
Tobiah is an Ammonite official in the Book of Nehemiah. Together with Sanballat and Geshem, he opposed the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. He later occupied a chamber in the temple and was expelled by Nehemiah.
- GeshemPeople
Geshem was an Arabian who, together with Sanballat and Tobiah, mocked and obstructed Nehemiah's work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. He appears in Nehemiah 2 and 6.
- Nehemiah 4Bible
Nehemiah 4 recounts how the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls met with ridicule from Sanballat and Tobiah and with a plot to attack the city, and how Nehemiah prayed, armed the people, and kept the work going as the builders labored with one hand and held a weapon with the other.
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