1 Kings 10:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Common English Bible

²² The royal fleet of Tarshish-style ships was at sea with Hiram’s fleet, returning once every three years with gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and peacocks.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² For the navy of the king, once every three years, went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tarshish, bringing from there gold, and silver, and elephant tusks, and primates, and peacocks.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² For the king's navy, once in three years, went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tharsis; and brought from thence gold, and silver, and elephants' teeth, and apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 10:22 Cross References

Genesis 10:4

The descendants of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

1 Kings 10:18

The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.

1 Kings 10:21

All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver—it was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 22:48

Jehoshaphat made ships of the Tarshish type to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

1 Kings 22:49

Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” but Jehoshaphat was not willing.

1 Kings 9:26

King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

2 Chronicles 9:21

For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

Job 39:13

“The ostrich’s wings flap wildly, though its pinions lack plumage.

Psalm 48:7

as when an east wind shatters the ships of Tarshish.

Psalm 72:10

May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts.

Isaiah 2:16

against all the ships of Tarshish and against all the highly prized vessels.

Isaiah 23:1

The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your fortress is destroyed. When they came in from Cyprus they learned of it.

Isaiah 23:10

Cross over to your own land, O ships of Tarshish; this is a harbor no more.

Isaiah 23:6

Cross over to Tarshish— wail, O inhabitants of the coast!

Isaiah 60:9

For the coastlands shall wait for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from far away, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

Isaiah 66:19

and I will set a sign among them. From them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, to Meshech, Tubal, and Javan, to the coastlands far away that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory, and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Ezekiel 27:12

Tarshish did business with you out of the abundance of your great wealth; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:15

The Rhodians traded with you; many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.

Amos 3:15

I will tear down the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end, says the Lord.

Jonah 1:3

But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid his fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.