2 Chronicles 9:21

21 For the king had the ships of Tarshish ^[a] that went with Hiram’s ^[b] servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ^[c]

2 Chronicles 9:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 10:21

(See Gill on 1 Kings 10:22).

2 Chronicles 9:21 In-Context

19 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.

20 All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

21 For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

22 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

23 All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

Footnotes

• [a] Or a fleet of trading ships; twice in this verse
• [b] Hebrew Huram’s, a variant of Hiram’s
• [c] Or baboons