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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Chronicles 8:18 - 8:18
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Huram sent him ... ships - either sent him ship-men, able seamen, overland; or, taking the word “sent” in a looser sense, supplied him, that is, built him ships - namely, in docks at Eloth (compare 1Ki 9:26, 1Ki 9:27). This navy of Solomon was manned by Tyrians, for Solomon had no seamen capable of performing distant expeditions. The Hebrew fishermen, whose boats plied on the Sea of Tiberias or coasted the shores of the Mediterranean, were not equal to the conducting of large vessels laden with valuable cargoes on long voyages and through the wide and unfrequented ocean.
four hundred and fifty talents of gold - (Compare 1Ki 9:28). The text in one of these passages is corrupt.