1 Kings 22:48-49
Jehoshaphat.2Ch 20:35,36-21:1made ships. or, had ten ships.10:22; 2Ch 9:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 2:16; 60:9; Jon 1:3Tharshish.Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX., Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, {Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,} "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus." to Ophir.9:28; Ps 45:9they went not.2Ch 20:37; 25:7Ezion-geber.9:26; Nu 33:35,36 49
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