TOBIAH

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• Ezra 2:60

  the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.

• Nehemiah 2:10

  When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

• Nehemiah 2:19

  But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammontite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

• Nehemiah 4:3

  Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

• Nehemiah 4:7

  But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

• Nehemiah 4:8

  and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.

• Nehemiah 6:1

  Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)

• Nehemiah 6:2

  Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

• Nehemiah 6:3

  I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”

• Nehemiah 6:4

  They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

• Nehemiah 6:5

  Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,

• Nehemiah 6:6

  in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

• Nehemiah 6:7

  You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.”

• Nehemiah 6:8

  Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

• Nehemiah 6:9

  For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

• Nehemiah 6:10

  I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night will they come to kill you.”

• Nehemiah 6:11

  I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

• Nehemiah 6:12

  I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

• Nehemiah 6:13

  He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

• Nehemiah 6:14

  “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”

• Nehemiah 6:17

  Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

• Nehemiah 6:18

  For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.

• Nehemiah 6:19

  Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

• Nehemiah 7:62

  The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty-two.

• Nehemiah 13:4

  Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,

• Nehemiah 13:5

  had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests.

• Nehemiah 13:6

  But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,

• Nehemiah 13:7

  and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.

• Nehemiah 13:8

  It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.

• Nehemiah 13:9

  Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.