46 And the Sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he put clean out of the land.

47 There was then no King in Edom: the [a]deputy was king.

48 Jehoshaphat made ships of [b]Tarshish to sail to [c]Ophir for gold, but they went not, for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:47 In the time of this king, Idumea was subject to Judah, and was governed by whom they of Judah appointed.
  2. 1 Kings 22:48 By Tarshish the Scripture meaneth Cilicia and all the sea called Mediterranean.
  3. 1 Kings 22:48 Josephus writeth that Ophir is in India, where the Egyptians and Arabians traffic for gold.

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