1 Kings 22:48 (KJV)

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Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold but they went not for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber

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Cross-references

Jehoshaphat. 2Ch 20:35 2Ch 20:36-21:1

made ships. or, had ten ships. 1Ki 10:22 2Ch 9:21 Ps 48:7 Isa 2:16 Isa 60:9 Jon 1:3

to Ophir. 1Ki 9:28 Ps 45:9

they went not. 2Ch 20:37 2Ch 25:7

Ezion-geber. 1Ki 9:26 Nu 33:35 Nu 33:36

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."

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