1 Kings 10:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Tharshish

Peacocks

Job 39:13

General references

Ezekiel 27:12

Bible References

Tharshish

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.

The sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim.

For the king had ships which went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

So he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.

With the east wind
You break the ships of Tarshish.

Let the kings of Tarshish and of the

islands bring presents;

The kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

Against all the ships of Tarshish
And against all the beautiful craft.

The oracle concerning Tyre.
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
For Tyre is destroyed, without house or

harbor;

It is reported to them from the land of

Cyprus.

“Surely the coastlands will wait for Me;
And the ships of Tarshish will come first,
To bring your sons from afar,
Their silver and their gold with them,
For the name of the Lord your God,
And for the Holy One of Israel because He has

glorified you.

I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.

“Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares.

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

“I will also smite the

winter house together with the summer house;

The houses of

ivory will also perish

And the great houses will come to an end,”
Declares the Lord.

Peacocks

“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously
With the pinion and plumage of love,

General references

“Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares.