2 Chronicles 8:17

Then, went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and unto Eloth on the seashore in the land of Edom.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

16So all the work of Solomon was prepared, from the day of founding the house of Yahweh, even as far as the finishing thereof,—complete was the house of Yahweh.

18And Huram sent him—by the hand of his servants—ships, and servants skilled in the sea, and they came, with the servants of Solomon, towards Ophir, and took from thence, four hundred and fifty talents of gold,—and brought unto King Solomon.

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Cross References

Numbers 33:35And they brake up from Abronah,—and encamped in Eziongeber.

1 Kings 9:26A fleet also, did King Solomon build in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

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

2 Chronicles 20:36and he joined with him, to make ships to go unto Tarshish,—and they made ships in Ezion-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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