1 Kings 10:22

For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram; once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

In Context

21And all king Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

23So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:4And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

1 Kings 10:18Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

1 Kings 22:49(22-50) Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat: 'Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships.' But Jehoshaphat would not.

2 Chronicles 20:36and he joined him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.

Psalms 48:7(48-8) With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

Isaiah 2:16And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 10:15-29

Solomon's Wealth. ( b. c. 990.) 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, 15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country. 16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put… Read the whole commentary →

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