1 Kings 9:27

And Chiram sent in the ship together with the servants of Solomon servants of his own, mariners to row, men acquainted with the sea.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

In Context

26even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near Aelath 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.

28And they came to Sophira, and took thence one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

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Cross References

1 Kings 5:9my servants shall bring them down from Libanus to the sea: I will form them into rafts, and bring them to the place which you shall send to me about; and I will + 5:9 Lit. shake them off. land them there, and you shall take them up: and you shall do my will, in giving bread to my household.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 9:16-28

Solomon's Buildings; Solomon's Greatness. ( b. c. 991.) 15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord , and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, 18 And Baalath, and… Read the whole commentary →

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