2 Chronicles 2:11
Lord <03068> [Because.]
2 Chronicles 4:16
pots shovels <05518 03257> [pots also.]
forks <04207> [flesh-hooks.]
Huram <02361> [Huram.]
[Hiram. his father.]
polished <04838> [bright. Heb. made bright, or scoured.]
2 Chronicles 8:2
cities <05892> [the cities.]
2 Chronicles 9:10
brought gold <02091 0935> [brought gold.]
fine timber <0418 06086> [algum trees.]
[almug-trees.]
2 Chronicles 2:3
Huram <02361> [Huram.]
[Hiram.]
As thou didst.
2 Chronicles 2:12
Huram <02361> [Huram.]
made ... sky <06213 08064> [that made heaven.]
<03045> [endued, etc. Heb. knowing prudence and understanding.]
temple .......... palace <01004> [an house.]
2 Chronicles 8:18
Huram <02361> [Huram.]
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[Hiram. Ophir.]
Conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless. Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island of Ceylon. Calmet supposes it to have been situated in Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is the Indies, called the Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Le Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines {ophirs.}
took .... 450 <03947 0702> [took thence.]
2 Chronicles 9:21
large merchant ships .................. port <08659> [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.
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[Tharshish. ivory. or, elephants' teeth. peacocks.]
{Tukkeeyim} is rendered {taysin} in the Targum, [taonon,] in the Alexandrian MS. 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.}
