1 Kings 10:22
Tharshish.22:48; Ge 10:4; 2Ch 9:21; 20:36,37; Ps 48:7; 72:10; Isa 2:16Isa 23:1,6,10; 60:9; 66:19; Eze 27:12; Jon 1:3Tarshish. ivory. or, elephant's teeth.18; Am 3:15apes.{Kophim,} rather monkeys, the same as the Syriac [qwp',] Greek [kephos,] [kepos,] or [kebos,] and Roman {Cephus,} which animal both Pliny and Solinus inform us was brought from Ethiopia. The same name appears in the monkeys, called {KEIIIEN} in the Prænestine Pavement, and in the French {cep} or {ceb.} peacocks.Job 39:131 Kings 22:48
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
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