Cross References

1 Kings 9:27

New American Bible - revised edition

To this fleet Hiram sent his own servants, expert sailors, with the servants of Solomon.

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Hiram’s fleet, which used to bring gold from Ophir, also brought from there a very large quantity of almug wood and precious stones.

Jehoshaphat made Tarshish ships to go to Ophir for gold; but in fact the ships did not go, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

Solomon had forty thousand stalls for horses for chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.

Moreover, God gave Solomon wisdom, exceptional understanding, and knowledge, as vast as the sand on the seashore.

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

Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; Your own sages, Tyre, were on board, serving as your sailors.