Tobijah
(goodness of Jehovah).
One of the Levites sent by Jehoshaphat, to teach the law in the cities of Judah. (2 Chronicles 17:8) (B.C. 910.) One of the captivity in the time of Zechariah, in whose presence the prophet, as commanded to take crowns of silver and gold and put them on the head of Joshua the high priest. (Zechariah 6:10,14) (B.C 519.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Tobijah
Tobijah to-bi'-ja (Tobhiyah, "Yahweh is good"): ⇒See a list of verses on TOBIJAH in the Bible. (1) A Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat whom the king sent to teach in the cities of Judah (2Ch 17:8; Tobhiyahu; the Septuagint omits). (2) One of a party of Jews that came from Babylon to Jerusalem with gold and silver for a crown for Zerubbabel and Joshua, or for Zerubbabel alone (Zec 6:10,14). The crown was to be stored in the temple in remembrance of the donors (the Septuagint in both passages translates Tobiyah by chresimoi, i.e. Tobheyha). ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Tobijah
1. One of the Levites sent by Jeho.shaphat to teach in the cities of Judah, 2 Ch 17' (LXX oni. ). 2. One of a deputation that came from Babylon to Jei-usalem with contributions of gold and silver, from which a crown wa.s ordered to be made either for Zerubb.abel and Joshua (Ew. llitz. ) or for Zerub. and not Josliua (Wcllh. Now., cf. G. A. Smith, ii. 3uSf. ), and laid uj) in the temple as a memorial of the donors. Zee G'"- '■* (LXX in both passages tr. .t^id by xp'J re- sent a composite Greek text. From 6" to 7" it presents many features of originality, but contains many of s's additions to tlie text of B, e.g. 6'^'- ■jii-13 ifxom 8' to 12« it agrees closely with the Syriac, which, as we shall see, during this section transfers its allegiance from B to K. From 12' to 13" it presents some readings of B, as 12'* 13'-^, but agrees in the main with Syr., even when Syr. differs from both B and S, as in 12'=-'». Before 6» and after 13* our cursives present the text of B. (2) Latin Versions. — (a) Vetus Itala or Old Latin, which Ilgen, in 1800, coiTectly surmised was based on a then unknown…
References
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