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Darby's French Translation

2 Chroniques 20:36

Et il s'associa avec lui pour construire des navires pour aller à Tarsis; et ils construisirent les navires à Etsion-Guéber.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahaziah;   Ezion-Gaber (Ezion-Geber);   Fellowship;   Jehoshaphat;   Ship;   Tarshish;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ezion-Gaber;   Jehoshaphat;   Navy;   Ships;   Tarshish;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ezion-Geber or Ezion-Gaber;   Idumea;   Jehoshaphat, Valley of;   Ophir;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahaziah;   Jehoshaphat;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ezion-Geber;   Jehoshaphat;   Ships;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Eliezer;   Jehoshaphat;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Tarshish;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   Ezion-Gaber;   Ezion-Geber;   Tarshish;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Tarshish (1);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eliezer ;   Eziongaber or Eziongeber ;   Ship;   Tarshish, Tharshish;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Handicraft;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahazi'ah;   Handicraft;   Tar'shish;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Commerce;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaziah;   Commerce;   Jehoshaphat (2);   Red Sea;   Ships and Boats;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahaziah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tarshish;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Il s'associa avec lui pour faire des navires, afin d'aller à Tarsis; et ils firent des navires à Etsjon-Guéber.
Louis Segond (1910)
Il s'associa avec lui pour construire des navires destinés à aller à Tarsis, et ils firent les navires à Etsjon-Guéber.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et il s'associa avec lui pour faire des navires et pour les envoyer en Tarsis; et ils firent ces navires à Hetsjonguéber.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And he joined: "At first Jehoshaphat was unwilling, 1 Kings 22:28, 1 Kings 22:49."

Tarshish: "Tarsos in the great sea," says the Targumist, by which is meant a a place in the Mediterranean, called the Great Sea by the Hebrews. See note on 1 Kings 10:22, Tharshish

Eziongaber: 1 Kings 9:26, Ezion-geber

Reciprocal: Numbers 33:35 - Eziongaber 1 Kings 9:27 - his servants 2 Chronicles 8:17 - Eziongeber Ezekiel 27:12 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish,.... Of which, :-, and though it is there said, 1 Kings 22:49, that Jehoshaphat refused letting the servants of Ahaziah go with his, that was after he had been reproved for joining with him, and after the ships were broken:

and they made the ships in Eziongeber; of which

1 Kings 22:49- :.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 20:36. To go to Tarshish — "In the great sea." - Targum. By which expression they always meant the Mediterranean Sea.


 
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