 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to...  The Kings: Ed., with an Introduction & Notes - Page 971896 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1847 - 528 pages
...Edom." (1 Chron. xviii. 11.) Solomon afterwards establ ¡shed and " made a navy of ships at Ezitmgebcr, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom." The ships were navigated by Phoenicians in the service of the Jewish king, whose friendship with Hiram... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 824 pages
..."merchantmen." Solomon afterwards availed himself of the commercial advantages of Edom, and established " a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth,...on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom," that is on the branch of the Red Sea, now called the Gulf of Akabah. Eloth is the present Ailah, on... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 pages
...ELATH— AKABAISLAND OF GRATA. SCRIPTURE NOTICES. "(THEY) encamped at Ezion-gaber." — Num. xxxiii. 3o. " King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber,...the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom."— 1 Kings ix. 26. " The ships were broken at Ezion-geber." — 1 Kings xxii. 48. "(Azariah) built Elath,... | |
 | George Smith - 1850 - 432 pages
...himself of this additional advantage. The sacred narrative gives this account of the proceeding : " And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber,...the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge * HEEKEN on the Phenicians, p. 123. + It is at least worthy of remark, that Benjamin of Tudela says... | |
 | 1850 - 830 pages
...the LOED, and he burnt incense lupon the altar that was before the LOED. So he finished the house. 26 Ashore of the Eed sea, iu the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen tbat... | |
 | Moses Margoliouth - 1851 - 326 pages
...Christ. We then find Solomon with a fleet of ships in the Red Sea, and we read in the 1st of Kings — ' And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that...knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.' Hiram, therefore, had long possessed a fleet ; and 450 years before Solomon's time we find Balaam saying... | |
 | 1851 - 668 pages
...profession, or who have made the truths aqd orf Eloth, on the t shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy «his servants, shipmen...knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28 And they came to h Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, ' four hundred and twenty talents, and brought... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1851 - 396 pages
...commercial enterprises or from the liberality of his friends and allies. We are told in I. Kings, X., that " King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Bed Sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of... | |
 | 1852 - 608 pages
...gilded without and within, with the cedar wood. It is highly probable, too, that king Solomon, who " made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea," drew largely upon Lebanon for such an undertaking; but whilst there is some doubt on this point, it... | |
 | 1853 - 764 pages
...finished the house. 26 And 'king Solomon made a navy of ships in "Ezion-geber,4 which is beside 27 s o servants,6 shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants 28 of Solomon. And they came to... | |
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