1 Kgs 22:48

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Jehoshaphat.

2Chr 20:35; 2Chr 20:36

made ships. or, had ten ships.

1Kgs 10:22; 2Chr 9:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 2:16; Isa 60:9; Jonah 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.

1Kgs 9:28; Ps 45:9

they went not.

2Chr 20:37; 2Chr 25:7

Ezion-geber.

1Kgs 9:26; Num 33:35; Num 33:36