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.
22:49 Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my sailors join yours in the fleet,” 2 but Jehoshaphat refused.
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.
2 tnHeb “Let my servants go with your servants in the fleet.”