Personalities · 12 · Nehemiah

Tobiah, 'my good is Yah'

A Transjordanian leader whose name honored Yhwh, Tobiah had marriage ties to Judah's upper class and even an apartment in the temple precincts.

Close kin, cast as enemies.

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Nehemiah says the first thing he did was throw Tobiah out of the temple. Later additions call him an enemy of Israel.

Bible reference: Nehemiah 13:4–9

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 199

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