Jehoshaphat made ships of (c) Tharshish to go to (d) Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
(c) By Tharshish the scripture means Cilicia and all the Mediterranean Sea.
(d) Josephus writes that Ophir is in India, where the Egyptians and Arabians traffic for gold.
Verse 1 Kings 22:48. _SHIPS OF THARSHISH TO GO TO OPHIR FOR GOLD_] In the parallel place (2 Chronicles 20:36) it is said that Jehoshaphat joined himself to Ahaziah, _to make ships to go to Tharshish;...
The expression, “ships of Tharshish,” probably designates ships of a particular class, ships (i. e.) like those with which the Phoenicians used to trade to Tharshish (Tartessus, 1 Kings 10:22 note). C...
CHAPTER 22 THE DEATH OF AHAB _ 1. Jehoshaphat and Ahab (1 Kings 22:1)_ 2. The prophet Micaiah (1 Kings 22:13) 3. The battle and Ahab's death (1 Kings 22:29) 4. Jehoshaphat of Judah ...
REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT OF JUDAH AND AHAZIAH OF ISRAEL, These reigns are related in the usual annalistic style. 1 Kings 22:47, which says there was no king in Edom, is very obscure. It seems to imply t...
MADE SHIPS, &C. This was subsequent to 2 Chronicles 20:36. Here Jehoshaphat made "Tharshish ships" to go to Ophir, and, profiting by the experience and warning of 2 Chronicles 20:37, refused the reque...
_ships of Tharshish_ See above on 1 Kings 10:22. _Ophir_ See 1 Kings 9:28. The Chronicler says the ships were to go to Tarshish (2 Chronicles 20:3-8). _the ships were broken_ According to the Chro
II. SUMMARY OF THE REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT 22:41-50 TRANSLATION (41) Now Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to rule over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. (42) Jehoshaphat was thirty-five y...
_JEHOSHAPHAT MADE SHIPS OF THARSHISH TO GO TO OPHIR FOR GOLD: BUT THEY WENT NOT; FOR THE SHIPS WERE BROKEN AT EZIONGEBER._ Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish, х_ `AASAAH_ (H6213) _ 'ªNIYOWT_ (H591)]...
SHIPS OF THARSHISH.. OPHIR] The ships that sailed to Ophir (in Arabia or E. Africa, see on 1 Kings 9:28) were similar to those which traded to Tartessus or Tarsus (in the Mediterranean)....
AHAB AND MICAIAH. AHAB'S DEATH AT RAMOTH-GLLEAD. REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT, KING OF JUDAH 1. Three years] probably calculated from the peace described in 1 Kings 20:34....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 22 THE *PROPHET MICAIAH V1 There was peace between Syria and *Israel for almost three years. V2 In the third year Jehoshaphat, king of *...
SHIPS OF THARSHISH TO GO TO OPHIR. — See Note on 1 Kings 10:22. We note that this revival of maritime enterprise coincides with the renewed alliance through Israel with Tyre. The account in 2 Chronicl...
_[1 Kings 22:49]_ יְהֹושָׁפָ֡ט _עָשָׂה֩_† אֳנִיֹּ֨ות תַּרְשִׁ֜ישׁ לָ...
JEHOSHAPHAT 1 Kings 22:41 BEFORE we leave the House of David we must speak of Jehoshaphat, the last king of Judah whose reign is narrated in the First Book of Kings. He was abler, more powerful, and...
“BROKEN SHIPS” 1 Kings 22:41 Further details of Jehoshaphat's good reign are given in 2 Chronicles 17:1; 2 Chronicles 18:1;...
The final movement in the downfall of Ahab is here chronicled. Jehoshaphat visited Ahab, who suggested the alliance against the king of Syria. Jehoshaphat suggested an appeal to Jehovah. Ahab produced...
_Edom. Hebrew and Chaldean, "but a deputy king," or viceroy; (Tirinus) so that the kings of Juda might equip fleets at Asiongaber, as the country of Idumea was subject to them ever since the time of D...
(41) В¶ And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. (42) Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty...
The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion, always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was insubordination in a direct manner against not only God's providence...
The last chapter presents another element of this history, namely, the guilty alliances which were formed between the royal families of Israel and Judah. Both of them prosperous at this period, they s...
JEHOSHAPHAT MADE SHIPS OF TARSHISH,.... Ships to go to sea, particularly the Indian sea, 1 Kings 10:22. Tarshish is used for the sea in general, Psalms 48:7, in the Cetib, or text, it is "ten"; in the...
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber. Ver. 48. _To go to Ophir for gold._] See 1 Kings 9:28 . _ For his ships were b...
_Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish_ These ships were not to go to Tharshish, but Ophir. But, it appears, they were called ships of Tharshish from their form, being made after the model of the ships...
1 Ahab seduced by false prophets, according to the word of Micaiah, is slaine at Ramoth Gilead. 37 The dogges licke vp his blood, and Ahaziah succeedeth him. 41 Iehoshaphats good reigne, 45 his act...
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish, ocean-going vessels such as were used for the trade with Spain, to go to Ophir for gold; BUT THEY WENT NOT, FOR THE SHIPS WERE BROKEN AT EZION-GEBER, the harbor at...
JEHOSHAPHAT IN JUDAH, AHAZIAH IN ISREAL...
AHAB WARNED BUT DETERMINED (vs.1-28) Three years later the show of repentance on Ahab's part had worn off. There had been no war between Israel and Syria, but rather than leaving matters as they were...
MADE SHIPS: Or, had ten ships...
41-50 Jehoshaphat's reign appears to have been one of the best, both as to piety and prosperity. He pleased God, and God blessed him....
See 2 CHRONICLES 20:36. Or, there were to _Jehoshaphat ten ships_; the ellipsis of the verb substantive, and of the prefix _lamed_, being frequent in the Hebrew language. Some render the words, _he ma...
1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat H3092 made H6213 (H8804) (H8675) H6240 merchant H8659 ships H591 go H3212 ...
THE REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT, KING OF JUDAH C. 870-848 BC (1 KINGS 22:41). We have already come across Jehoshaphat with regard to his alliance with Ahab against the Aramaeans (1 Kings 22:1), although that...
1 Kings 22:48 I. Notice first the disaster to Jehoshaphat's shipping. The eastern arm of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, is much deeper than the western; indeed, it is a narrow, deep ravine, with ste...
CONTENTS: Alliance of Ahab and Jehosophat. Ahab's ultimate defeat. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoshaphat, Ahab, Micaiah, Zedekiah, Syrian king, false prophets, Ahaziah. CONCLUSION: He who joins himself in af...
1 Kings 22:2. _Jehoshaphat_ had married his son Jehoram to Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel; probably from the idea that the connection would prevent internal war for the future: oh fatal mistake! 1 King...
_Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish._ THE SHIPWRECK AT EZION-GEBER I. This lamentable disaster to King Jehoshaphat’s shipping. The Red Sea is a long and comparatively narrow sheet of water, running i...
_Jehoshaphat the King of Judah._ CHARACTER OF JEHOSHAPHAT In Ahab we have an instance of a wicked man partially reclaimed, frequently arrested, but yet finally hardened in his iniquity. In Jehoshapha...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 22:41 Jehoshaphat and Ahaziah. Both Jehoshaphat and Ahaziah have already appeared in 1 Kings 1:1 as characters in Ahab’s story. They are, respect
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 22:48 THE SHIPS WERE WRECKED AT EZION-GEBER. Because Jehoshaphat rules Edom, like Solomon he is able to build ships at Ezion-geber (see 1 Kings 9:26
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 22:41. HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF JEHOSHAPHAT OF JUDAH—Scant records of Judah occur in the Scriptures, but _Chronicles_ give them more fully. 1 Kings 22:46. THE...
EXPOSITION THE EXPEDITION OF AHAB AND JEHOSHAPHAT AGAINST HRAMOTH-GILEAD. THE DEATH OF AHAB. THE REIGNS OF JEHOSHAPHAT AND AHAZIAH....
So they went for three years without war between Syria and Israel. And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat who was the king of the southern tribes Judah, he came up to visit Ahab. And...
1 Kings 10:22; 1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 9:28; 2 Chronicles 20:35;...