2 Chronicles 9:21

21 For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once {every three years} the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

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 And twelve lions were standing there on [each] of the six steps {on each end}. And there was nothing like [it] made in all the kingdom.

20 And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon [were] of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon [were] of pure gold. Silver was not valued as anything in the days of Solomon.

21 For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once {every three years} the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

22 Thus King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.

23 And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart.

Footnotes

• [a]. This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"
• [b]. Literally "for three years"