1 Chronicles 1:23
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
In Context
24So from Shem came Arphaxad, Shelah,
Cross References
Genesis 2:11The name of the first river is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 25:18Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
1 Kings 9:28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
1 Chronicles 29:4three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,
Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 1:2-28
First Chronicles In common things repetition is thought needless and nauseous; but, in sacred things, precept must be upon precept and line upon line. To me, says the apostle, to write the same things is not grievous, but for you it is safe, Phil. iii. 1 . These books of Chronicles are in a great measure repetition; so are much of the second and third of the four evangelists: and yet there are no tautologies either here or there no vain repetitions. We may be ready to think that of all the books of holy scripture… Read the whole commentary →