2 Chr 8:18

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Huram.

2Chr 9:10; 2Chr 9:13

See on 1Kgs 9:27; 1Kgs 9:28; 1Kgs 10:22

Hiram. Ophir.

Conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless. Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island of Ceylon.

Calmet supposes it to have been situated in Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is the Indies, called the Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Le Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines {ophirs.}

took thence.

Ec 2:8