Tobiah

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. Ancestor of a family of Babylonian captives

• Ezra 2:60 the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 652 in all.
• Nehemiah 7:62 the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 642 in all.

2. An enemy of the Jews in the time of Nehemiah

Opposes the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem

• Nehemiah 2:10 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.
• Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
• Nehemiah 4:3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
• Nehemiah 4:7–8 When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious, and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.

Conspires to injure and intimidate Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 6:1–14 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left— though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates— Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the pla…
• Nehemiah 6:19 Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiah’s good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

Subverts nobles of Judah

• Nehemiah 6:17–18 Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters kept coming to them. For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

Allies himself with Eliashib, the priest

• Nehemiah 13:4–9 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and o…