Tobiah טוֹבִיָּ֫הוּ

Nehmiah's opponent. Tobiah was an Ammonite official who, along with Sanballat the Horonite, opposed Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

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Nehemiah (12)

Key verses

• Nehemiah 2:10 first mention — When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
• Nehemiah 2:19 — But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
• Nehemiah 4:3 — Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
• Nehemiah 4:7 — But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
• Nehemiah 6:1 — Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
• Nehemiah 6:12 — And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
• Nehemiah 6:14 — My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on 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 unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
• Nehemiah 6:19 — Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
• Nehemiah 13:4 — And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
• Nehemiah 13:7 — And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
• Nehemiah 13:8 — And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.