1 Kings 22:47-50
king ......... ruled <04428> [no king.]
Jehoshaphat <03092> [Jehoshaphat.]
ships ................. shipwrecked <06213 0591> [made ships. or, had ten ships.]
large merchant ships <08659> [Tharshish.]
Josephus and the Chaldee and Arabic paraphrasts explain this place of Tarsus in Cilicia; the LXX., Theodoret, and Jerome, understand it of Carthage; but the learned Bochart makes it Tartessus, an island in the straits of Gades. Ibn Haukal describes Tarsousa as belonging to Andalus, or Andalusia; and Festus Avienus expressly says, {Hic Gadir urbs est dicta Tartessus prius,} "the city Cadiz was formerly called Tartessus."
Ophir <0211> [to Ophir.]
ships ... travel ......... made ... voyage ..... shipwrecked <01980 0591> [they went not.]
Ezion Geber <06100> [Ezion-geber.]
passed away ....... ancestors ....... ancestor <07901 01> [A.M. 3115. B.C. 889. slept with his fathers.]
city <05892> [in the city.]
Jehoram <03088> [Jehoram.]
