2 Chronicles 20:36 BSB

2 Chronicles 20:36

They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.

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ASV

and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.

KJV

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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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish,.... Of which; see Gill on 1Ki 22:48, and though it is there said, 1Ki 22:49, that Jehoshaphat refused letting the servants of Ahaziah go with his, that was after he had been reproved for joining with him, and after the ships were broken: and they made the ships in Eziongeber; of which see Gill on 1Ki 9:26.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There is an emphasis laid upon the time-- after this, after God had done such great things for him, without any such scandalous and pernicious confederacies, given him not only victory, but wealth, yet after this to go and join himself with a wicked king was very ungrateful.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְחַבְּרֵ֣הוּ	vay.cha.be.Re.hu	and he allied himself	H2266 →
עִמּ֔וֹ	i.Mo	with him	H5973 →
לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת	la.'a.Sot	to make	H6213 →
אֳנִיּ֖וֹת	'o.ni.Yot	ships	H591 →
לָלֶ֣כֶת	la.Le.khet	to go	H1980 →
תַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ	tar.Shish	Tarshish	H8659 →
וַיַּעֲשׂ֥וּ	vai.ya.'a.Su	and they made	H6213 →
אֳנִיּ֖וֹת	'o.ni.Yot	ships	H591 →
בְּעֶצְי֥וֹן	be.'etz.Yon	in Ezion	H6100 →
גָּֽבֶר׃	Ga.ver	Geber	H6100 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 10:22
For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
leads to
- 1 Kings 22:48
  Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 20:36–37
  They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 72:10
  May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
- Psalms 48:7
  With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
- Genesis 10:4
  And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
Through
1 Kings 9:26
King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
leads to
- Numbers 33:35
  They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
- Deuteronomy 2:8
  So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of…
Through
2 Chronicles 9:21
For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
leads to
- Job 39:13
  The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

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The Ammonite and Moabite Armies Are Destroyed — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 2 Chronicles

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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