He joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish. They made the ships in Ezion Geber.
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He joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish. They made the ships in Ezion Geber.
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And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
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and he joined him with himself to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 20:36 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
- 1 Kings 10:22 For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 20:36 And he joined himself with him to…
2Ch 20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber.
Ver. 36. And he joined himself.] See 1Ki 22:48-49.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To make ships to go to Tarshish; of which…
To make ships to go to Tarshish; of which See Poole "1Ki 10:22 22:48".
They made the ships in Ezion-gaber; of which see on 1Ki 9:26.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah,.... A…
Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah,.... A city in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:44.
prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah; an idolatrous prince, with whom he ought to have had no fellowship, even in civil things, it being both a countenancing him, and exposing himself and people to danger:
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the Lord hath broken thy works; the ships built at the joint expense of the two kings, that is, the Lord had determined to break them, and now foretold that he would; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord hath destroyed thy works:"
and the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish; see Gill on Kg1 22:48.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 36. To go to Tarshish] "In the great…
Verse 36. To go to Tarshish] "In the great sea." - Targum. By which expression they always meant the Mediterranean Sea.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Tharsis; probably Cilicia, (C.) or some part of the…
Tharsis; probably Cilicia, (C.) or some part of the ocean. --- Asion-gaber was on the Red Sea; and ships would not have been built there, to trade on the Mediterranean, C. ix. 21. T.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 36. ships to go to Tarshish] In Kings, ships…
36. ships to go to Tarshish] In Kings, ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir: cp. 2Ch_9:21 (= 1Ki_10:22), note. In both passages the reading of Kings, “ships (or ‘navy’) of Tarshish,” i.e. large sea-going ships (cp. Psa_48:7) is to be preferred, because (1) Ezion-geber was a port for vessels sailing eastward, while Tarshish was in the west, (2) gold, the object of the voyage (cp. 1Ki_22:48), came from Ophir (2Ch_8:18; 1Ki_9:28; 1Ki_10:11; Psa_45:9).
Tarshish] Cp. 1Ch_1:7 (note).
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Ezion-geber] Cp. 2Ch_8:17 (note).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (36) And he joined himself with him.—Literally, and he…
(36) And he joined himself with him.—Literally, and he joined him with himself, an expression only occurring here.
To make ships to go to Tarshish.—In 1Ki_22:48-49, we read: “Jehoshaphat made ships (i.e., a fleet) of Tarshish, to go to Ophir for gold; and it went not; for the ships were broken (i.e., wrecked) in Ezion-geber. Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships; and Jehoshaphat consented not.” There is no mention of a previous alliance and partnership in the ship-building with Ahaziah. Moreover, the expression of our text, “ships to go to Tarshish,” appears to be an erroneous paraphrase of “ships of Tarshish,” or “Tarshish-men,” as we might say; a phrase which really means, vessels built for long sea-voyages. According to Kings, the ships were built “to go to Ophir for gold;” in other words, to renew Solomon’s traffic with India from the port on the Red Sea.
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And they made the ships in Ezion-gaber.—The Edomite port at the head of the Gulf of Akaba. If Tarshish means the Phoenician Tartessus in Spain, the fleet could only go thither by doubling the Cape, or crossing the Isthmus of Suez. Therefore some have supposed another Tarshish somewhere in the Persian Gulf or on the north-west coast of India. (See on 2Ch_9:21.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This verse tells us the object with which Jehoshaphat…
This verse tells us the object with which Jehoshaphat had joined himself with Ahaziah, and 1Ki_22:49 tells us how at last, by a point-blank refusal to Ahaziah, he withdrew from the very brief commercial alliance after he had not merely been witnessed against by the Prophet Eliezer spoken of in our next verse, but more decisively witnessed against by the shattering of his ships. To go to Tarshish. This clause, even if the text is not corrupt, yet cannot mean what it seems to say; but in the word "to go" (Hebrew, tkll) must mean, of the sort that were wont to go to Tarshish, i.e. that were used for the Tarshish trade. We are guided to some such explanation by 1Ki_22:48, where it is said the ships were "ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir" (1Ki_10:22; 2Ch_8:18) That the ships could not be to go to Tarshish is plain from the fact of the place, Ezion-geber (2Ch_8:17, 2Ch_8:18; 1Ki_9:26) on the Red Sea, where they were built. Some, however, have suggested that some other Tarshish (e.g. in the Gulf of Persia) than that of Spain (Tartessus) may conceivably be meant. The clear statement of the parallel saves the necessity of any such supposition, however.
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