"For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish brin…" — 2 Chronicles 9:21

2 Chronicles 9:21 · KJV

“For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. {ivory: or, elephants' teeth}”

— 2 Chronicles 9:21

Verse 20

And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon {were of} gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon {were of} pure gold: none {were of} silver; it was {not} any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. {pure: Heb. shut up} {none were of silver: or, there was no silver in them}

Verse 22

And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9 — Context

And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. {ivory: or, elephants' teeth}

And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:48

{There was} then no king in Edom: a deputy {was} king.

1 Kings 10:22

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. {ivory: or, elephants' teeth}

Job 39:13

{Gavest thou} the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? {wings and...: or, the feathers of the stork and ostrich}

2 Chronicles 20:36-37

And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber.