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1 Kings 22:48

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Jehoshaphat: 2 Chronicles 20:35, 36-21:1

made ships: or, had ten ships, 1 Kings 10:22; 2 Chronicles 9:21; Psalms 48:7; Isaiah 2:16, Isaiah 60:9; Jonah 1:3

Tharshish: Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX, Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius:, "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus."

to Ophir: 1 Kings 9:28; Psalms 45:9

they went not: 2 Chronicles 20:37, 2 Chronicles 25:7

Eziongeber: 1 Kings 9:26; Numbers 33:35-36

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