1 Kings 22:48

ASV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴⁸ Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.

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Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 20:35; 2 Chronicles 20:36-21
made ships. or, had ten ships.
1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 9:21; Psalms 48:7; Isaiah 2:16; Isaiah 60:9; Jonah 1:3
Tharshish.Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX., Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, {Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,} "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus."
to Ophir.
1 Kings 9:28; Psalms 45:9
they went not.
2 Chronicles 20:37; 2 Chronicles 25:7
Ezion-geber.
1 Kings 9:26; Numbers 33:35; Numbers 33:36