1 Kings 10:22

Modern English Version

For the king had ships at sea at Tarshish with the ships of Hiram. Every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

Cross References

Genesis 10:4

The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

1 Kings 10:18

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

1 Kings 10:21

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were made of gold, and all the cups of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were made of pure gold. None were made of silver, for it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 22:48

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never made it there, for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.

1 Kings 22:49

Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat did not agree.

1 Kings 9:26

King Solomon built a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Elath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.

2 Chronicles 9:21

The ships of Solomon went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish returned carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

Job 39:13

“Did you give the beautiful wings to the peacocks? Or wings and feathers to the ostrich,

Psalm 48:7

as when You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Psalm 72:10

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

Isaiah 2:16

and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant sloops.

Isaiah 23:1

The oracle of Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste so that there is no house or harbor; from the land of Cyprus it is reported to them.

Isaiah 23:10

Pass through your land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no more restraint.

Isaiah 23:6

Pass over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.

Isaiah 60:9

Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish shall come first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord your God and to the Holy One of Israel because He has glorified you.

Isaiah 66:19

I will set a sign among them, and send from them survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud —who draw the bow—to Tubal, and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame or seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the nations.

Ezekiel 27:12

Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches. With silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in your wares.

Ezekiel 27:15

The sons of Dedan were your merchants. Many coastlands were your merchandise. They brought you for a payment horns of ivory and ebony.

Amos 3:15

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

Jonah 1:3

But Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found there a ship going to Tarshish. He paid its fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.