1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat 2Chr 20:35, 36-21:1 made ships or, had ten ships, 1Kgs 10:22; 2Chr 9:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 2:16, Isa 60:9; Jonah 1:3 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." to Ophir 1Kgs 9:28; Ps 45:9 they went not 2Chr 20:37, 2Chr 25:7 Eziongeber 1Kgs 9:26; Num 33:35-36
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