Tobit 14

So Tobit made an end of ^apraising God. ²And 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 increased in the fear of the Lord God, and ^apraised him. ³And when he was very aged, he called his son, and the six sons of his son, and said to him, My son, take thy children; for behold, I am aged, and am ready to depart out of this life. ⁴Go into ^bMedia, my son, for I surely believe those things which ^cJonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that ^dour brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and ^dJerusalem shall be desolate, and ^dthe house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time; ⁵and that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again into the land, where ^ethey shall build a temple, but ^fnot like to the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and ^gafterward they shall return from all places of their 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. ⁶And ^hall nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and ⁱshall bury their idols. ⁷So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall ^aconfess God, and the Lord shall exalt his people; and all ^kthose which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, shewing mercy to our brethren. ⁸And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those things which ^cthe prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass. ⁹But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself merciful and just, ^lthat it may go well with thee. ¹⁰And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineve. Remember, my son, how Aman handled ^mAchiacharus that brought him up, how ⁿout 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. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him: but Aman fell into the snare, and perished. ¹¹Wherefore now, my son, consider ^owhat alms doeth, and how righteousness doth deliver.

When he had said these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed, ^pbeing an hundred and eight and fifty years old; and he buried him honourably. ¹²And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to ^qEcbatane to Raguel his father in law, ¹³where he became old with honour, and he buried his father and mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his father Tobit’s. ¹⁴And he died at ^qEcbatane in ^bMedia, being an hundred and seven and twenty years old. ¹⁵But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and ^rAssuerus: and before his death he rejoiced over Nineve.