2 Chronicles 8:18

Contextual Overview

¹²At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the Lord’s altar he had made in front of the portico. ¹² Then Shlomo offered burnt-offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the altar of the Lord , which he had built before the porch, ¹² Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord that he had built before the vestibule, ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar he had built for the Lord in front of the Temple porch. ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the temple's porch. ¹²Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the porch [of the temple], ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built in front of the porch; ¹² Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch, ¹² Then Salomon offered burnt offrings vnto the Lord, on the altar of the Lorde, which he had built before the porche,

Bible Verse Review
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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
The Lord will protect your coming and goingboth now and forever.

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

Psalms 121:8
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.

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

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.

Psalms 121:8
The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in [everything that you do] From this time forth and forever.

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

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

Psalms 121:8
The Lorde shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in from henceforth & for euer.

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.