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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 1 Kings 22:48

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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Jehoshaphat: Ch2 20:35, 36-21:1 made ships: or, had ten ships, Kg1 10:22; Ch2 9:21; Psa 48:7; Isa 2:16, Isa 60:9; Jon 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: Kg1 9:28; Psa 45:9 they went not: Ch2 20:37, Ch2 25:7 Eziongeber: Kg1 9:26; Num 33:35, Num 33:36 3 Kings (1 Kings) 22:50
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