2 Chronicles 8:18 BSB

2 Chronicles 8:18

So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

BSB

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ASV

And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

KJV

And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Yet Canaan was God's peculiar land, and Israel God's peculiar people. This teaches us that grace, and not gold, is the best riches, and acquaintance with God and his law, not with arts and sciences, the best knowledge.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Huram sent him . . . ships--either sent him ship-men, able seamen, overland; or, taking the word "sent" in a looser sense, supplied him, that is, built him ships--namely, in docks at Eloth (compare 1Ki 9:26, 27). This navy of Solomon was manned by Tyrians, for Solomon had no seamen capable of performing distant expeditions.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּֽשְׁלַֽח־	vai.yish.lach-	and he sent	H7971 →
לוֹ֩	lo	to him
חוּרָ֨ם	chu.Ram	Huram	H2361 →
בְּיַד־	be.yad-	by [the] hand of	H3027 →
עֲבָדָ֜יו	'a.va.Dav	servants his	H5650 →
אֳנִיּ֗וֹת	'o.ni.yot	ships	H591 →
וַעֲבָדִים֮	va.'a.va.Dim	and servants	H5650 →
י֣וֹדְעֵי	Yod.'ei	[who] knew	H3045 →
יָם֒	yam	<of> [the] sea	H3220 →
וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ	vai.ya.Vo.'u	and they went	H935 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
עַבְדֵ֤י	'av.Dei	[the] servants of	H5650 →
שְׁלֹמֹה֙	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
אוֹפִ֔ירָה	'o.Fi.rah	Ophir towards	H211 →
וַיִּקְח֣וּ	vai.yik.Chu	and they took	H3947 →
מִשָּׁ֔ם	mi.Sham	from there	H8033 →
אַרְבַּע־	'ar.ba'-	four	H702 →
מֵא֥וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
וַחֲמִשִּׁ֖ים	va.cha.mi.Shim	and fifty	H2572 →
כִּכַּ֣ר	ki.Kar	talent[s] of	H3603 →
זָהָ֑ב	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →
וַיָּבִ֖יאוּ	vai.ya.Vi.'u	and they brought [it]	H935 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃ פ	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →

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

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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
- Psalms 72:10
  May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 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.
- Psalms 48:7
  With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
- 2 Chronicles 20:36–37
  They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.
- Genesis 10:4
  And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
Through
Ecclesiastes 2:8
and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.
leads to
- 1 Kings 10:10
  Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was such an abundance of spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave…
- 2 Samuel 19:35
  I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men…
- 1 Kings 9:28
  They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonSolomonDavid's son and the third king of Israel; the temple-builder and wisdom-king, to whom Psalms 72 and 127 are ascribed.

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