For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Chiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
1 Kings 22:49 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Then said Achazyah the son of Ach'av to Yehoshafat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Yehoshafat would not. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships, Jehoshaphat refused. American Standard Version (1901) Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. Common English Bible Then Ahaziah, Ahab’s son, said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my sailors go with your sailors on the ships.” But Jehoshaphat didn’t agree to this. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, king Jehoshaphat had made a navy on the sea, which would sail to Ophir for gold. But they were unable to go, because the ships were broken down at Eziongeber. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber. |
For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Chiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Yehoshafat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ofir 1 for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at `Etzyon-Gever.
Yehoshafat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; Yehoram his son reigned in his place.
King Shlomo made a navy of ships in `Etzyon-Gever, which is beside Elot, on the shore of the Sea of Suf, in the land of Edom.
Chiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Shlomo.
They came to Ofir 1, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Shlomo.
After this did Yehoshafat king of Yehudah join himself with Achazyah king of Yisra'el; the same did very wickedly:
As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.