2 Chronicles 8:18

Contextual Overview

¹²On the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD , ¹² On the altar of the Lord that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord , ¹²Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh which he had built before the porch; ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built before the porch; ¹² Then Solomon offred burnt offringes vnto the Lorde on the aulter of the Lorde, whiche he had buylt before the porche: ¹² Then Solomon offered up burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch; ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built before the vestibule, ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah that he had built before the porch, ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the Lord 's altar. He built that altar in front of the Temple porch. ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 9:27-28, 1 Kings 10:22, Hiram

Huram: 2 Chronicles 9:10, 2 Chronicles 9:13

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 Lev. Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines ophirs.

took thence: Ecclesiastes 2:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 10:11 - from Ophir

Cross-References

Psalms 121:8

⁸ the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Psalms 121:8
the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Psalms 121:8
Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming inFrom now until forever.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in From this time forth and forever.

Psalms 121:8
God wyll preserue thy goyng out and thy commyng in: from this tyme foorth for euermore.

Psalms 121:8
Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth and for evermore.

Psalms 121:8
The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.

Psalms 121:8
Jehovah shall keep your going out, and your coming in, from now on and till forever.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will protect you as you come and go, both now and forever!

Psalms 121:8
Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It has been supposed that these ships were conveyed from Tyre to Ezion-geber, either

(1) round the continent of Africa, or

(2) across the isthmus of Suez.

But the writer probably only means that ships were given by Hiram to Solomon at this time, and in connection with the Ophir enterprise. These vessels may have been delivered at Joppa, and have been there carefully studied by the Jewish shipwrights, who then preceeded to Ezion-geber, and, assisted by Phoenicians, constructed ships after their pattern.

Four hundred and fifty talents - “Four hundred and twenty talents” in Kings 1 Kings 9:28. One or other of the two texts has suffered from that corruption to which numbers are so especially liable.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 8:18. Knowledge of the sea — Skilful sailors. Solomon probably bore the expenses and his friend, the Tyrian king, furnished him with expert sailors; for the Jews, at no period of their history, had any skill in maritime affairs, their navigation being confined to the lakes of their own country, from which they could never acquire any nautical skill. The Tyrians, on the contrary, lived on and in the sea.