2 Chronicles 9:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

2 Chronicles 9:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 39:13
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
2 Chronicles 20:36-37
And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber. …
1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
1 Kings 10:22
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Topics

Animals Ape Barter Birds Commerce Exports Imports Mariners (sailors)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-30)

We have here Solomon in his throne, and Solomon in his grave; for the throne would not secure him from the grave. Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat — Death wrenches from the hand the sceptre as well as the spade. I. Here is Solomon reigning in wealth and power, in ease and fulness, such as, for aught I know, could never since be paralleled by any king whatsoever. In cannot pretend to be critical in co…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. the king’s ships went to Tarshish--rather, “the king’s ships of Tarshish went” with the servants of Huram. ships of Tarshish--that is, in burden and construction like the large vessels built for or used at Tarshish [Calmet, Fragments].