2 Chronicles 8:17

Then went Solomon to 'Ezyon-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea-shore in the land of Edom.

Leeser Tanakh

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

16And [so] was all the work of Solomon successful from the day of founding the house of the Lord, even until it was finished. [So] was perfected the house of the Lord.

18And Churam sent him by means of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and they fetched away thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought the same to king Solomon.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:35And they removed from 'Abronah, and encamped at 'Ezyon-geber.

1 Kings 9:26And king Solomon made a ship in 'Ezyon-geber, which is near Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

2 Kings 14:22He it was that built Elath, and brought it back to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

2 Chronicles 20:36And he connected himself with him to make ships to go to Tharshish: and they made ships in 'Ezyon-geber.

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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