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Topic:
Persons Of The Bible -- Tobiah
The name "Tobiah" is from the Hebrew name
טוֹבִיָּה (Toviyyah)
which meant "YAHWEH is good". The name also means
"pleasing to Jehovah" or "goodness of Jehovah".
The children of Tobiah were a family who returned with Zerubbabel,
but were unable to prove their connection with Israel-- (Ezra 2:60;
Nehemiah 7:62) (B.C. before 536.) He was a man of great influence, which
he exerted in opposition to the Jews, and "sent letters" to
Nehemiah "to put him in fear" (Neh. 6:17-19). Tobiah the
Ammonite slave played a conspicuous part in the rancorous opposing
position made by Sanballat the Moabite and his adherents to the
rebuilding of Jerusalem. (B.C. 446) after the Exile. (Neh. 2:10) The two
races of Moab and Ammon found in these men fit representatives of that
hereditary hatred to the Israelites which began before the entrance into
Caanan, and was not extinct when the Hebrews had ceased to exist as a
nation. But Tobiah, though a slave, (Nehemiah 2:10,19)--unless, this is
a title of opprobrium--and an Ammonite, found means to ally himself with
a priestly family, and his son Johanan married the daughter of Meshullam
the son of Berechiah. (Nehemiah 6:18) He himself was the son-in-law of
Shechaniah the son of Arah, (Nehemiah 6:17) and these family relations
created for him a strong faction among the Jews. "Eliashib the
priest" prepared for him during Nehemiah's absence "a chamber
in the courts of the house of God," which on his return grieved
Nehemiah sore, and therefore he "cast forth all the household stuff
of Tobiah out of the chamber" (13:7, 8).
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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