Text: 2 Chronicles 8:17-18
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 9:26-27
Subject: Other settlements, projects, and treaties
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts of Solomon's Ophir gold trade via the port at Ezion-geber. Both texts describe the Tyrian-Israelite maritime partnership, with 1 Kings 9:26-27 noting that Hiram sent "servants who were sailors, who knew the sea" alongside Solomon's men. The Chronicler reproduces this joint venture notice, demonstrating that Solomon's international trade network was enabled by Tyre's maritime expertise. The Red Sea commerce represents the fulfillment of the Abrahamic blessing reaching to distant nations through Solomon's kingdom at its zenith.
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Text: 1 Kings 9:26-27
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 8:17-18
Subject: Ophir fleet expedition — parallel account
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts of Solomon's joint maritime venture with Hiram/Huram. In 1 Kings 9:26-28, Solomon builds ships at Ezion-geber, Hiram sends experienced sailors, and they bring back 420 talents of gold from Ophir. In 2 Chronicles 8:17-18, "Huram sent him ships manned by his own officers and sailors who knew the sea," and they bring back 450 talents of gold. The thirty-talent discrepancy between the accounts is a well-known textual variation. Both emphasize the international cooperation between Israel and Phoenicia that made this unprecedented maritime expedition possible.
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Text: 1 Kings 9:26
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 8:17
Subject: other settlements, projects, and treaties
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Both texts record Solomon's maritime base at Ezion-geber/Eloth on the Red Sea coast. In 1 Kings 9:26, Solomon "built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom." The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 8:17 records that "Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of the land of Edom." Both passages connect to the joint venture with Hiram/Huram that brought gold from Ophir, demonstrating Solomon's extension of Israelite commercial power into the Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade networks — an achievement unique to his reign in Israel's history.