26 King Solomon also built ships(A) at Ezion Geber,(B) which is near Elath(C) in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:26 Or the Sea of Reeds

27 And Hiram sent his men—sailors(A) who knew the sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men.

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21 The king had a fleet of trading ships[a] manned by Hiram’s[b] servants. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Hebrew of ships that could go to Tarshish
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram

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