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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Tobijah:

id., a Levite sent out through Judah by Jehoshaphat to teach the people (2Ch 17:8).

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Tobijah:

to-bi'-ja (Tobhiyah, "Yahweh is good"):

(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).



Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tobijah:

(goodness of Jehovah).

(1.) One of the Levites sent by Jehoshaphat, to teach the law in the cities of Judah (2 Chronicles 17:8). (B.C. 910)

(2.) 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; 6:14). (B.C. 519)

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