14:4 Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which
Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and
that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren
shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem
shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and
shall be desolate for a time;
14:5 And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again
into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to the
first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward 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.
14:6 And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall
bury their idols.
14:7 So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall confess
God, and the Lord shall exalt his people; and all those which love the
Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, shewing mercy to our
brethren.
14:8 And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those things
which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass.
14:9 But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself
merciful and just, that it may go well with thee.
14:10 And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer
at Nineve. Remember, my son, how Aman handled Achiacharus that brought
him up, how out 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.
14:11 Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doeth, and how
righteousness doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up
the ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty years old;
and he buried him honourably.
14:12 And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his father.
But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel
his father in law,
14:13 Where 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.
14:14 And he died at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundred and seven and
twenty years old.
14:15 But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which
was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus: and before his death he
rejoiced over Nineve.
The Book of Judith
1:1 In the twelfth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in
Nineve, the great city; in the days of Arphaxad, which reigned over the
Medes in Ecbatane,
1:2 And built in Ecbatane walls round about of stones hewn three cubits
broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy
cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits:
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