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2 Crónicas 8:18
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Y por medio de sus siervos, Hiram le envió naves y marinos conocedores del mar; y éstos fueron con los siervos de Salomón a Ofir, y de allí tomaron cuatrocientos cincuenta talentos de oro, que llevaron al rey Salomón.
Chronicles 8:18"> 18 Porque Hiram le haba enviado navos por mano de sus siervos, y marineros diestros en la mar, los cuales fueron con los siervos de Salomn Ophir, y tomaron de all cuatrocientos y cincuenta talentos de oro, y los trajeron al rey Salomn.
Porque Hiram le haba enviado navos por mano de sus siervos, y marineros diestros en el mar, los cuales fueron con los siervos de Salomn a Ofir, y tomaron de all cuatrocientos cincuenta talentos de oro y los trajeron al rey Salomn.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Kings 9:27-28, 1 Kings 10:22, Hiram
Huram: 2 Chronicles 9:10, 2 Chronicles 9:13
Ophir: Conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless. Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island of Ceylon. Calmet supposes it to have been situated in Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is the Indies, called the Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Lev. Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines ophirs.
took thence: Ecclesiastes 2:8
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 10:11 - from Ophir
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It has been supposed that these ships were conveyed from Tyre to Ezion-geber, either
(1) round the continent of Africa, or
(2) across the isthmus of Suez.
But the writer probably only means that ships were given by Hiram to Solomon at this time, and in connection with the Ophir enterprise. These vessels may have been delivered at Joppa, and have been there carefully studied by the Jewish shipwrights, who then preceeded to Ezion-geber, and, assisted by Phoenicians, constructed ships after their pattern.
Four hundred and fifty talents - “Four hundred and twenty talents” in Kings 1 Kings 9:28. One or other of the two texts has suffered from that corruption to which numbers are so especially liable.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Chronicles 8:18. Knowledge of the sea — Skilful sailors. Solomon probably bore the expenses and his friend, the Tyrian king, furnished him with expert sailors; for the Jews, at no period of their history, had any skill in maritime affairs, their navigation being confined to the lakes of their own country, from which they could never acquire any nautical skill. The Tyrians, on the contrary, lived on and in the sea.