Tobit 1:13-15

Good News Translation

¹³ he made Emperor Shalmaneser respect me, and I was placed in charge of purchasing all the emperor's supplies.

¹⁴ Before the emperor died, I made regular trips to the land of Media to buy things for him there. Once, when I was in the city of Rages in Media, I left some bags of money there with Gabael, Gabrias' brother, and asked him to keep them for me. There were more than 600 pounds of silver coins in those bags. ¹⁵ When Shalmaneser died, his son Sennacherib succeeded him as emperor. It soon became so dangerous to travel on the roads in Media that I could no longer go there.