2 Chronicles 9:20-25
drinking 1Kgs 10:21; Esth 1:7; Dan 5:2-3 pure Heb. shut up none were of silver or, there was no silver in them it was 2Chr 9:27; Isa 2:22; Jer 31:5 1Kgs 10:22, 1Kgs 22:48, Tharshish Tarshish Bochart thinks this Tarshish was probably the promontory Cory, on the north of the island of Ceylon, which, according to him, was the land of Ophir. That it was name of a place in the East Indies, seems probable from the articles brought thence, and also from the ships sent thither being built at Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea; though Michaelis supposes that the fleet coasted along the shore of Africa, doubling the Cape of Good Hope, and came to Tartessus, in Spain, and thence back again the same way; that this accounts for their three years' voyage out and home; and that Spain and the coasts of Africa furnish all the commodities which they brought back. ivory or, elephants' teeth peacocks Tukkeeyim is rendered taysin in the Targum, ταωνων, in the Alexandrian manuscript of the LXX, and pavos, "peacocks," in the Vulgate; with which the Syriac, Arabic, and Rabbins agree. This derives confirmation from the fact, that the peacock is called in Malabaric, Togei. Job 39:13 passed all the kings 2Chr 1:12; 1Kgs 3:12-13, 1Kgs 4:30-31, 1Kgs 10:23-24; Ps 89:27; Matt 12:42; Col 2:2-3 sought 2Chr 9:6-7; 1Kgs 4:34; Isa 11:2, Isa 11:10 God 2Chr 1:10-12; 1Kgs 3:28; Prov 2:6; Dan 1:17, Dan 2:21-23, Dan 5:11; Luke 21:15; 1Cor 1:30; 1Cor 12:8; Eph 1:17; Jas 1:5, Jas 1:16-17, Jas 3:17 every man 2Chr 9:9; 1Sam 10:27; 1Kgs 9:14, 1Kgs 10:10, 1Kgs 10:25; Job 42:11 2Chr 1:14; Deut 17:16; 1Kgs 4:26, 1Kgs 10:26
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