[3][4] He, along with Sanballat the Horonite and Geshem the Arabian, resorted to a stratagem and, pretending to wish a conference with Nehemiah, invited him to meet them at Ono, Benjamin.
[7] Additionally, Tobiah exploited his relationship with High Priest Eliashib, whose grandson had married the daughter of Sanballat.
Upon hearing this, Nehemiah, who was then in Babylon serving Artaxerxes I of Persia, requested permission to return to Judah.
Josephus later mentions a rich and influential Tobiad family from around the geographic region of Ammon,[10] which may be descended from or otherwise related to this same Tobiah.
[2] Archaeological evidence shows that the site of 'Iraq al-Amir, the seat of the Tobiad family, was occupied during the Persian period.