2 Chronicles 8:17

Then Solomon went to Gasion Gaber, and to Ælath near the sea in the land of Idumea.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.

In Context

16Now all the work had been prepared from the day when the foundation was laid, until Solomon finished the house of the Lord.

18And Chiram sent by the hand of his servants ships, and servants skilled in naval affairs; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Sophira, and brought thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and they came to king Solomon.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:35And they departed from Ebrona, and encamped in Gesion Gaber.

1 Kings 9:26even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near Ælath on the + 9:26 Gr. lip.shore of the + 9:26 Gr. last sea, or last part of the sea, q. d. head of the gulf.extremity of the sea in the land of Edom.

2 Kings 14:22He built Æloth, and restored it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.

2 Chronicles 20:36by acting with and going to him, to build ships to go to Tharsis: and he built ships in Gasion Gaber.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 8:13-18

Solomon's Devotion. ( b. c. 992.) 12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord , which he had built before the porch, 13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. 14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the… Read the whole commentary →

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