1 Kings 22:48
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| Overview - 1 Kings 22 | |
| 1 | Ahab, seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slain at Ramoth-gilead. |
| 37 | The dogs lick up his blood, and Ahaziah succeeds him. |
| 41 | Jehoshaphat's good reign. |
| 45 | His acts. |
| 46 | Jehoram succeeds him. |
| 51 | Ahaziah's evil reign. |
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1 Kings 22:48 (King James Version)
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
- Jehoshaphat
- 2 Chronicles 20:35 2 Chronicles 36-21:1
- made ships
- or, had ten ships.
- 10:22 2 Chronicles 9:21 ; Psalms 48:7 ; Isaiah 2:16 ; 60:9 Jonah 1:3
- Tharshish
- Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX., Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, {Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,} "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus."
- to Ophir
- 9:28 Psalms 45:9
- they went not
- 2 Chronicles 20:37 ; 25:7
- Ezion-geber
- 9:26 Numbers 33:35 Numbers 33:36