22:47 There was no king in Edom at this time; a governor ruled.
22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships 1 to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.
1 tnHeb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.