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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 9:21 — For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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Tarshish
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Bochart thinks this Tarshish was probably the promontory Cory, on the north of the island of Ceylon, which, according to him, was the land of Ophir. That it was name of a place in the East Indies, seems probable from the articles brought thence, and also from the ships sent thither being built at Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea; though Michaelis supposes that the fleet coasted along the shore of Africa, doubling the Cape of Good Hope, and came to Tartessus, in Spain, and thence back again the same way; that this accounts for their three years' voyage out and home; and that Spain and the coasts of Africa furnish all the commodities which they brought back. 1Ki 10:22; 1Ki 22:48; Tharshish |
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ivory
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"or, elephants' teeth. peacocks. Tukkeeyim is rendered taysin in the Targum, [taonon] in the Alexandrian MS. of the LXX., and pavos, ""peacocks,"" in the Vulgate; with which the Syriac, Arabic, and Rabbins agree. This derives confirmation from the fact, that the peacock is called in Malabaric, Togei. Job 39:13" |
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1Ki 10:22 |
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. |
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1Ki 22:48 |
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber. |
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Job 39:13 |
[Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Chronicles 9:21," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Ch/9/21.html>.
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