For the ships of the king went once by three years with the ships of Hiram into Tharshish, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and teeth of elephants, and apes, and peacocks.
Forsooth king Jehoshaphat made ships in the sea, that should sail into Ophir for gold, and those [or they] might not go, for they were broken in Eziongeber.
And when we had passed by our brethren, the sons of Esau, that dwelled in Seir, by the way of the field of Elath, and of Eziongaber, we came to the way that leadeth into the desert of Moab.