1 Reyes 22:48

48 Por esos días Josafat construyó una flota mercante^[a] para ir a Ofir por oro, pero nunca llegaron a zarpar, pues naufragaron en Ezión Guéber.

1 Reyes 22:48 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 22:48

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish
Ships to go to sea, particularly the Indian sea, ( 1 Kings 10:22 ) . Tarshish is used for the sea in general, ( Psalms 48:7 ) ( Isaiah 2:16 ) , in the Cetib, or text, it is "ten"; in the Keri, or margin, it is "made", which we follow, and may be put together, as in the Tigurine version, and read, "he made ten ships to go by sea":

even to go to Ophir for gold;
as Solomon did; of which place see ( 1 Kings 9:28 ) ,

but they went not, for the ships were broken at Eziongeber;
the port where they were built: as soon as they were launched, or sailed, they were broken to pieces against the rocks near the harbour, which stood up like a man's backbone, whence the port had its name; (See Gill on 1 Kings 9:26), and if this was Calzem, as there observed, near to it was a dangerous place for ships, and where many were lost, and is supposed to be the place where Pharaoh and his host were drowned {y}; the reason of this shipwreck was, because Jehoshaphat joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, for which he was reproved by the prophet Eliezer, and this was his punishment, ( 2 Chronicles 20:35-37 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Vid. Geograph. Nub. Climat. 3. par. 3. in fine.

1 Reyes 22:48 In-Context

46 Libró la tierra del resto de los hombres que practicaban la prostitución en los santuarios, los cuales se habían quedado allí incluso después del reinado de su padre Asá.

47 En aquel tiempo no había rey en Edom, sino que gobernaba un regente.

48 Por esos días Josafat construyó una flota mercante para ir a Ofir por oro, pero nunca llegaron a zarpar, pues naufragaron en Ezión Guéber.

49 Entonces Ocozías hijo de Acab le dijo a Josafat: «Deja que mis hombres naveguen con tus hombres». Pero Josafat no se lo permitió.

50 Josafat murió y fue sepultado con sus antepasados en la ciudad de su padre David. Y su hijo Jorán lo sucedió en el trono.

Footnotes

• [a]. "una flota mercante" . Lit. "unos barcos de Tarsis" .