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Clementine Latin Vulgate
1 Paralipomenon 9:26
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Classem quoque fecit rex Salomon in Asiongaber, qu est juxta Ailath in littore maris Rubri, in terra Idum.
Classem quoque fecit rex Salomon in Asiongaber, quae est iuxta Ailath in litore maris Rubri in terra Idumaea.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
made a navy: 2 Chronicles 8:12, 2 Chronicles 8:17, 18-11:4
Eziongeber: 1 Kings 22:48, Numbers 33:35, Deuteronomy 2:8
Eloth: 2 Kings 14:22
shore: Heb. lip
Reciprocal: Genesis 22:17 - shore 2 Kings 2:13 - bank 2 Kings 16:6 - Elath 2 Chronicles 20:36 - Eziongaber Proverbs 31:14 - General Ezekiel 47:7 - bank
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And King Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber,.... Which was one of the stations of the Israelites, near the wilderness of Sin, or Paran, Numbers 33:35, it signifies the backbone of a man; and it is said w the ridge of rocks before this port were in that form, covered by the sea at high water, and sticking up with various points in a line when it was low. Josephus says x in his time it was called Berenice, which is placed by Mela y between the Heroopolitic bay, and the promontory Strobilus, or Pharan. It is thought probable z to be the same with that which is called by the Arabs Meenah-el-Dsahab, the port of gold, called Dizahab, Deuteronomy 1:1, which stands upon the shore of the Arabic gulf, about two or three days' distance from Mount Sinai; though by others a thought to be the same the Arabs call Calzem, where was a great quantity of wood fit for building ships. It is further described,
which is beside Elath, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom; and when Edom was subdued by David, this port fell into his hands, and so was in the possession of Solomon; and there being plenty of timber in the parts adjacent, and this being a port in the Red sea, Solomon chose it as proper place to build ships in. Elath, near to which was, is the same the Elanitic bay had its name from; or which
Deuteronomy 1:1- :. Trajan, the Roman emperor, formed a navy in the Red sea b, that by it he might ravage and waste the borders of India; and here it seems Solomon's navy went; see 1 Kings 9:28.
w Harris's Voyages, vol. 1. B. 1. ch. 2. sect. 3. p. 377. x Antiqu. l. 8. c. 6. sect. 4. y De Situ Orbis, l. 3. c. 8. z Clayton's Chronology, &c. p. 407. a Vossius in Melam ut supra, (Harris's Voyages, vol. 1. B. 1. ch. 2. sect. 3.) p. 386. b Eutrop. Rom. Hist. l. 8. Ruti Fest. Breviar.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
On Ezion-geber and Eloth, see the notes to marginal references. As the entire tract about Elath (Akaba) is destitute of trees, it is conjectured that the wood of which Solomon built his fleet was cut in Lebanon, floated to Gaza by sea, and thence conveyed across to Ezion-geber, at the head of the E anitic Gulf, by land carriage. (Compare 2 Chronicles 2:16.)
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Kings 9:26. A navy of ships — Literally, אני oni, a ship: in the parallel place, 2 Chronicles 8:17, it is said that Hiram sent him אניות oniyoth, ships; but it does not appear that Solomon in this case built more than one ship, and this was manned principally by the Tyrians.
