Tobiæ 8:17

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Tunc abiit Salomon in Asiongaber, et in Ailath ad oram maris Rubri, quæ est in terra Edom.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et misi eos ad Eddo, qui est primus in Chasphi� loco, et posui in ore eorum verba, qu� loquerentur ad Eddo, et fratres ejus Nathin�os in loco Chasphi�, ut adducerent nobis ministros domus Dei nostri.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et misi eos ad Eddo, qui est primus in Chasphiae loco, et posui in ore eorum verba, quae loquerentur ad Eddo et fratres eius, ut adducerent nobis ministros domus Dei nostri.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Casiphia: Casiphia is supposed to denote the Caspian mountains, between Media and Hyrcania, near the Caspian Sea. It is evident, from a comparison of Ezra 7:9, with Ezra 8:31, that Casiphia could not be far from Ahava.

I told them: Heb. I put words in their mouth, Exodus 4:15, Deuteronomy 18:18, 2 Samuel 14:3, 2 Samuel 14:19, Jeremiah 1:9, Jeremiah 15:19

the Nethinims: Ezra 2:43, Ezra 2:58, Ezra 7:7

ministers: Numbers 8:22-26, Numbers 18:6, 1 Chronicles 23:3-6, 1 Chronicles 23:26-32, Titus 1:5

Reciprocal: Ezra 8:20 - Nethinims

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief, at the place Casiphia,.... Not a place by the Caspian sea, and near the Caspian mountains, as Munster, which was too far off to go and return in the time they must, see Ezra 7:9, but, as Jarchi, a place in Babylon so called, a village near it, or a parish or street in it, where Ezra knew lived many of the Levites and Nethinims, and where Iddo was the chief of the Levites, and over them both:

and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia; but Iddo was not one of the Nethinims; for he was chief of the Levites, and by his authority many of them were sent as well as of the Nethinims; but none of the latter were over the Levites, for they were servants to them, Ezra 8:20, but, according to Jarchi, the Nethinims are not at all intended in this clause, who reads the words,

to Iddo and Achim, (the name of a man with him; perhaps it may be better rendered, "to Iddo and his brother",)

who were appointed, or settled, in the place Casiphia; and with him De Dieu agrees, and so the Syriac version,

who dwelt in Casiphia: that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God; both Levites to be singers and porters there, and the Nethinims to wait on them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Casiphia - Its situation is wholly unknown; but it cannot have been far from Ahava.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. At the place Casiphia — The most judicious commentators are agreed that by Casiphia, the Caspian mountains, between Media and Hyrcania, are intended; where, probably, the Nethinim were employed in working silver mines: כסף keseph, from which the word comes, signifies silver.