1Ki 22:48, Isa 2:16 | TSK | STEP | Jehoshaphat. made ships. or, had ten ships. Tharshish.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. they went not. Ezion-geber.

1 Kings 22:48

Jehoshaphat.

made ships. or, had ten ships.

10:22; 2Ch 9:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 2:16; 60:9; Jon 1:3

Tharshish.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 45:9

they went not.

2Ch 20:37; 25:7

Ezion-geber.

9:26; Nu 33:35,36

Isaiah 2:16

the ships.

23:1; 1Ki 10:22; 22:48,49; Ps 47:7; Re 18:17-19

pleasant pictures. Heb. pictures of desire.

Nu 33:52; Re 18:11