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1 Kings 9:28
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They went to Ophir and acquired gold there—sixteen tons—and delivered it to Solomon.
They came to Ofir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Shlomo.
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.
The ships sailed to Ophir and brought back about thirty-two thousand pounds of gold to King Solomon.
They sailed to Ophir, took from there 420 talents of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.
They came to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
And they went to Ophir and received 420 talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
And they came to Ophir and sette from thence foure hundreth and twentie talents of gold, and brought it to King Salomon.
And they went to Ophir and took from there 420 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.
They went to Ofir and took from there gold, fourteen tons of it, which they brought back to King Shlomo.
and they went to Ophir, and fetched thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
And they came to Ophir and took from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.
They sailed to the land of Ophir and brought back to Solomon about sixteen tons of gold.
They went to Ophir and imported from there four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and they brought it to King Solomon.
and they came to Ophir and took gold from there, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it in to King Solomon.
and they came vnto Ophir, and fetched from thence one & twenty score hundreth weight of golde, and brought it vnto Salomon.
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, and set from thence foure hundred and twentie talentes of golde, and brought it to king Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, and fet from thence gold foure hundred and twentie talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
And they came to Sophira, and took thence a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there-420 talents-and delivered it to Solomon.
and whanne thei hadden come in to Ophir, thei brouyten fro thennus gold of foure hundrid and twenti talentis to kyng Salomon.
and they come in to Ophir and take thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and bring [it] in unto king Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
And they came to Ophir, and imported from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.
They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
And they went to Ophir, and acquired four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
They sailed to Ophir and brought back to Solomon some sixteen tons of gold.
They went to Ophir and brought out gold weighing as much as 420 small men. And they brought it to King Solomon.
They went to Ophir, and imported from there four hundred twenty talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
and they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence, gold, four hundred and twenty talents, - and brought it to King Solomon.
And they came to Ophir; and they brought from thence to king Solomon four hundred and twenty talents of gold.
and they went to Ophir, and brought from there gold, to the amount of four hundred and twenty talents; and they brought it to King Solomon.
They went to Ophir and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to King Solomon.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Ophir: 1 Kings 10:11, Genesis 10:29, 1 Chronicles 29:4, 2 Chronicles 8:18, 2 Chronicles 9:10, Job 22:24, Job 28:16, Psalms 45:9, Isaiah 13:12
four hundred: 2 Chronicles 8:18
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:14 - General 1 Kings 10:14 - was six hundred 1 Kings 22:48 - to Ophir 1 Chronicles 1:23 - Ophir Ecclesiastes 2:8 - silver
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they came to Ophir,.... About which place there are various opinions; some take it to be the little island of Zocatora, on the eastern coast of Africa, at a small distance from the straits of Babelmandel; others the island of Ceylon; others Sofala in Africa; some k Peru in America; Vatablus the island of Hispaniola in the West Indies, discovered by Columbus, and who thought l himself that he had found the land of Ophir, because of the quantity of gold in it; others the southern part of Arabia; but the most reasonable opinion is, says my author m, that it is a rich country in Malacca, which is a peninsula in the true Red sea (that part of the ocean which divides Asia from Africa), known by the name of the "golden Chersonese", and which agrees with Josephus n; and at twelve leagues from Malacca there is a very high mountain, which by the natives is called Ophir, and is reported to be, or to have been, very rich in gold, though at present only some tin mines are worked there; and Kircher o says the word Ophir is a Coptic or Egyptian word, by which the ancient Egyptians used to call that India which contains the kingdoms of Malabar, Zeilan, the golden Chersonese, and, the islands belonging to it, Sumatra, Molucca, Java, and other neighbouring golden islands. So Varrerius p thinks that all that coast in which are contained Pegu, Malaca, and Somatra, is Ophir; which places, besides gold, abound with elephants, apes, and parrots. In the island of Sumatra gold is now found, especially in Achin, in great plenty; in which is a mountain, called the "golden mountain", near the mines q Reland r takes Ophir to be the country round about a city called Oupara or Suphara, in the East Indies, where now stands Goa, the most famous mart in all India at this day for many of those things Solomon traded thither for. Though after all perhaps there was no such place originally as Ophir in India; only the gold brought from thence was like that of Ophir in Arabia, and therefore they called the place so from whence it was had; see Job 22:24
and fetched from thence gold four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon; which according to Brerewood s amounted to 1,890,000 pounds of our money; and according to another writer t 5,132,400 ducats of gold. Abarbinel says a talent of gold was equal to 12,300 Venetian ducats; in 2 Chronicles 8:18 it is said, that four hundred and fifty talents of gold were brought to Solomon; perhaps thirty might be expended in the voyage, or paid to Hiram's servants for their wages, as some Jewish writers observe; or in the bulk or ore it might be four hundred and fifty talents, but when purified only four hundred and twenty, as Grotius remarks; either way removes the difficulty; though some think different voyages are respected here and there; of the gold of Ophir frequent mention is made in Scripture.
k Erasm. Schmid. de America, orat. ad Cale. Pindar. p. 261. So some Jewish writers say it is the new world, Ganz. Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 10. 1. l P. Martyr Decad. 1. l. 1. m Harris's Voyages, ut supra. (vol. 1. B. 1. ch. 2. sect. 3. p. 377.) n Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 8. c. 6. sect. 4.) o China Illustrat. cum Monument. p. 58. & Prodrom. Copt. c. 4. p. 119. p Comment. de Ophyra. q Dampier's Voyages, vol. 2. ch. 7. r Dissert. de Ophir, sect. 6, 7. s De Ponder. & Pret. c. 5. t Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 572.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
On Ophir, see the marginal reference note. Among the various opinions three predominate; all moderns, except a very few, being in favor of Arabia, India, or Eastern Africa. Arabiaâs claims are supported by the greatest number.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Kings 9:28. And they came to Ophir — No man knows certainly, to this day, where this Ophir was situated. There were two places of this name; one somewhere in India, beyond the Ganges, and another in Arabia, near the country of the Sabaeans, mentioned by Job, Job 22:24: Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust; and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. And Job 28:16: It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. Calmet places this country at the sources of the Euphrates and Tigris.
But there are several reasons to prove that this was not the Ophir of the Bible, which it seems was so situated as to require a voyage of three years long to go out, load, and return. Mr. Bruce has discussed this subject at great length; see his Travels, vol. ii., chap. iv., p. 354, c. He endeavours to prove
1. That Ezion-geber is situated on the Elanitic branch of the Arabian Gulf or Red Sea.
2. That Tharshish is Moka, near to Melinda, in the Indian Ocean, in about three degrees south latitude.
3. That Ophir lies somewhere in the land of Sofala, or in the vicinity of the Zimbeze river, opposite the island of Madagascar, where there have been gold and silver mines in great abundance from the remotest antiquity. And he proves,
4. That no vessel could perform this voyage in less than THREE years, because of the monsoons that more time need not be employed, and that this is the precise time mentioned in 1 Kings 10:22.
1 Kings 10:5. That this is the country of the queen of Sheba, or Sabia, or Azeba, who on her visit to Solomon, brought him one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices and precious stones great store, 1 Kings 10:10. And that gold, ivory, silver, c., are the natural productions of this country.
To illustrate and prove his positions he has given a map on a large scale, "showing the track of Solomon's fleet in their three years' voyage from the Elanitic Gulf to Ophir and Tharshish" to which, and his description, I must refer the reader.
