1 Kings 9:27

King James Version (1611 Edition)

And Hiram sent in the nauie his seruants, shipmen that had knowledge of the Sea, with the seruants of Solomon.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
With the fleet, Hiram sent his servants, experienced seamen, along with Solomon’s servants.

Hebrew Names Version
Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Shlomo.

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

English Standard Version
And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.

New Century Version
Hiram had skilled sailors, so he sent them to serve in these ships with Solomon's men.

New English Translation
Hiram sent his fleet and some of his sailors, who were well acquainted with the sea, to serve with Solomon's men.

Amplified Bible
And Hiram [king of Tyre] sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon.

New American Standard Bible
And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Hiram sent with the nauie his seruats, that were mariners, and had knowledge of the sea, with the seruants of Salomon.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon.

Contemporary English Version
King Hiram let some of his experienced sailors go to the country of Ophir with Solomon's own sailors, and they brought back about sixteen tons of gold for Solomon.

Complete Jewish Bible
Hiram sent some of his own servants, experienced sailors who understood the sea, to serve with Shlomo's servants.

Darby Translation
And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon;

Easy-to-Read Version
King Hiram had some skilled sailors who knew the sea well. He sent them to serve in Solomon's navy and work with Solomon's men.

George Lamsa Translation
And Hiram sent his servants in the ship, seamen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

Good News Translation
King Hiram sent some experienced sailors from his fleet to serve with Solomon's men.

Lexham English Bible
Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, sailors who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

Literal Translation
And Hiram sent his servants in the navy, shipmen who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Hiram sent his seruauntes by shippe, which were shipmen, and had experience of the See, with Salomons seruauntes,

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

Bible in Basic English
Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Hiram sent by shippe also of his seruauntes, that were shipmen and had knowledge of the sea, with the seruauntes of Solomon:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Chiram sent in the ship together with the servants of Solomon servants of his own, mariners to row, men acquainted with the sea.

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

Berean Standard Bible
And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon's servants.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Iram sente in that schip hise seruauntis, schipmen, and kunnynge of the see, with the seruauntis of Salomon;

Young's Literal Translation
And Hiram sendeth in the navy his servants, shipmen knowing the sea, with servants of Solomon,

Update Bible Version
And Hiram sent in the navy his slaves, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the slaves of Solomon.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

World English Bible
Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

New King James Version
Then Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, to work with the servants of Solomon.

New Living Translation
Hiram sent experienced crews of sailors to sail the ships with Solomon's men.

New Life Bible
Hiram sent his servants with the ships, sailors who knew the sea. He sent them with the servants of Solomon.

New Revised Standard
Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, seamen, having knowledge of the sea, - with the servants of Solomon;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

Revised Standard Version
And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And this is the reason of the leuie which king Solomon raised, for to build the house of the Lord, and his owne house, and Millo, and the wall of Ierusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. ¹⁶ For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone vp, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slaine the Canaanites that dwelt in the citie, and giuen it for a present vnto his daughter Solomons wife. ¹⁷ And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, ¹⁸ And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wildernesse, in the land. ¹⁹ And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his charets, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon disired to build in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. ²⁰ And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittittes, Perizzites, Hiuites, and Iebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, ²¹ Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able vtterly to destroy, vpon those did Solomon leuie a tribute of bond-seruice vnto this day. ²² But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of warre, and his seruants, and his princes, and his captaines, and rulers of his charets, and his horsemen. ²³ These were the chiefe of the officers that were ouer Solomons worke, fiue hundred and fiftie, which bare rule ouer the people that wrought in the worke. ²⁴ But Pharaohs daughter came vp out of the citie of Dauid, vnto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his servants: 1 Kings 5:6, 1 Kings 5:9, 1 Kings 22:49, 2 Chronicles 20:36, 2 Chronicles 20:37

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:32 - their trade hath been to feed cattle 1 Kings 10:11 - from Ophir 2 Chronicles 8:17 - Eziongeber 2 Chronicles 8:18 - General 2 Chronicles 9:10 - brought gold Ezekiel 27:8 - wise Acts 27:27 - the shipmen

Cross-References

Genesis 9:9
And I, behold, I establish my couenant with you, and with your seede after you:

Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, of the fowle, of the cattell, and of euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, to euery beast of the earth.

Genesis 9:13
I doe set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a couenant, betweene me and the earth.

Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to passe, when I bring a cloud ouer the earth, that the bow shall be seene in the cloud.

Isaiah 11:10
And in that day there shall bee a roote of Iesse, which shall stand for an ensigne of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seeke, and his rest shall bee glorious.

Hosea 2:14
Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speake comfortably vnto her.

Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the Sunne, euen vnto the going downe of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in euery place incense shall be offered vnto my name, and a pure offring: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hostes.

Acts 17:14
And then immediatly the brethren sent away Paul, to goe as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.

Romans 11:12
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them, the riches of the Gentiles: how much more their fulnesse?

Romans 15:12
And againe Esaias saith, There shal be a roote of Iesse, and he that shal rise to raigne ouer the Gentiles, in him shall the Gentiles trust.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hiram sent in his navy his servants,.... And, according to 2 Chronicles 8:18, ships also but how he could send them from Tyre, which lay in the Mediterranean sea, to the above ports in the Red sea, without going a great way round, is not easy to conceive. Perhaps, as Gussetins conjectures c, Hiram had a port in the Red sea for building and sending out ships, for the sake of his eastern navigation, and from thence he sent them to Solomon's ports in the same sea; but if what R. Japhet d observes is true, that the Red sea is mixed with the sea of Joppa by means of the river Rhinocurura, as is remarked by a learned man e and who approves of the observation, and thinks it does not deserve the censure Dr. Lightfoot f passes on it. If this, I say, can be supported, the difficulty is removed: so Abarbinel asserts g, that a branch of the Nile flows into the Red sea: and another, passing through Alexandria, runs into the Mediterranean sea. This is the first navy of ships we read of; in the construction of which, as well as in the art of navigation, the Tyrians no doubt were greatly assisting to Solomon's servants, and which appears by what follows; and they are said h to be the first that made use of ships; and the invention of ships of burden, or merchant ships, such as these were, is by Pliny i ascribed to Hippus the Tyrian: and the Tyrians were famous for merchandise, which they could not carry on with foreign nations without shipping; see Isaiah 23:8, the servants Hiram sent in Solomon's navy were

shipmen that had knowledge of the sea; of sea coasts and ports, of the manner of guiding and managing ships at sea, and of the whole art of navigation, so far as then known, for which the Tyrians were famous; see Ezekiel 27:3,

with the servants of Solomon; to instruct and assist them in naval affairs, they not having been used thereunto.

c Ebr. Comment p. 628. d In Aben Ezra in Jon. ii. 5. e Texelii Phoenix, l. 3. c. 6. p. 243, 244. f Miscellanies, c. 18. vol. 1. p. 1002, 1003. g Apud Manasseh, Spes Israelis, sect. 2. p. 20. h "Prima ratem ventis credere docta Tyros", Catullus. i Nat. Hist. l. 7. c. 56.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shipmen - See 1 Kings 5:6 note. With respect to the acquaintance of the Phoenicians with this particular sea, it may be observed that they are not unlikely to have had trading settlements there, as they had in the Persian Gulf, even at this early period. The commerce with Ophir was probably an established trade, previously either in their hands or in those of the Egyptians, when Solomon determined to have a share in it. The Egyptians had navigated the other arm of the Red Sea, and perhaps its lower parts, from a much more ancient period.