1 Kings 9:27-28

his servants.

5:6,9; 22:49; 2Ch 20:36,37

Ophir.

10:11; Ge 10:29; 1Ch 29:4; 2Ch 8:18; 9:10; Job 22:24; 28:16; Ps 45:9

Isa 13:12

four hundred.

2Ch 8:18

2 Chronicles 8:18

Huram.

9:10,13

See on

1Ki 9:27,28; 10:22

Hiram. Ophir.Conjectures respecting the situation of Ophir are endless. Grotius conjectures it to be a part of Arabia called Aphar by Arrian; while Bochart and others have placed it in the island of Ceylon. Calmet supposes it to have been situated in Armenia; but his late editor places it at the head of the Indus. Josephus says that Ophir is the Indies, called the Gold country; by which he is supposed to mean Chersonesus Aurea, now Malacca, opposite Sumatra; and Le Poivre observes that the inhabitants of these places call their gold mines {ophirs.}

took thence.

Ec 2:8

Psalms 45:9

Kings.

13; 72:10; So 6:8,9; 7:1; Isa 49:23; 60:10,11; Re 21:24

upon.

1Ki 2:9,19

queen.

So 4:8-11; Joh 3:29; Eph 5:26,27; Re 19:7; 21:2,9

gold.

1Ki 10:11; Job 22:24
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