2 Chronicles 8:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth by the sea in the land of Edom.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 14:22 : 22 He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.
  • Deut 2:8 : 8 So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.
  • 1 Kgs 9:26-27 : 26 And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.
  • 1 Kgs 22:48 : 48 And the representative of King Jehoshaphat made a Tarshish-ship to go to Ophir for gold, but it did not go, because it was broken at Ezion-geber.
  • 2 Kgs 16:6 : 6 At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.
  • 2 Chr 20:36 : 36 Together they made ships to go to Tarshish, building them in Ezion-geber.
  • Num 33:35 : 35 And they went on from Abronah, and put up their tents in Ezion-geber.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 9:26-28
    3 verses
    86%

    26 And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

    27 Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.

    28 And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 8:18
    75%

    18 And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 20:36
    72%

    36 Together they made ships to go to Tarshish, building them in Ezion-geber.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    72%

    16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

  • 2 Chr 8:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

    2 He took in hand the building up of the towns which Huram had given him, causing the children of Israel to make living-places for themselves there.

    3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and overcame it.

  • 2 Chr 1:13
    72%

    13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

  • 2 Chr 8:6
    70%

    6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 9:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 ... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,

    18 And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;

  • 2 Chr 4:10
    69%

    10 He put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house to the east, facing south.

  • 1 Kgs 22:48
    69%

    48 And the representative of King Jehoshaphat made a Tarshish-ship to go to Ophir for gold, but it did not go, because it was broken at Ezion-geber.

  • 2 Chr 7:8
    69%

    8 So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 10:22-24
    3 verses
    69%

    22 For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

    23 And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

    24 And from all over the earth they came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

  • 2 Chr 9:22
    69%

    22 And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

  • 2 Kgs 3:8
    69%

    8 And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.

  • 2 Chr 9:14
    69%

    14 And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 9:28
    69%

    28 They got horses for Solomon from Egypt and from every land.

  • 1 Kgs 8:65
    68%

    65 So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 7:13
    68%

    13 Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

  • Deut 2:8
    68%

    8 So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.

  • 1 Kgs 10:11
    68%

    11 And the sea-force of Hiram, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with much sandal-wood and jewels.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    68%

    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 2 Chr 2:16
    68%

    16 And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1
    68%

    1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

  • Num 33:35
    68%

    35 And they went on from Abronah, and put up their tents in Ezion-geber.

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    68%

    12 The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • 1 Kgs 10:13
    67%

    13 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 5:15
    67%

    15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    67%

    10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 1 Kgs 10:4
    67%

    4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 1 Kgs 8:1
    67%

    1 Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

  • 1 Kgs 11:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14 So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom.

    15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    67%

    1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

  • Song 3:9
    67%

    9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 2 Chr 9:1
    67%

    1 Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
    67%

    2 And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

  • 2 Chr 9:26
    67%

    26 And he was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the limit of Egypt.

  • 2 Kgs 8:21
    67%

    21 Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    67%

    11 So Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house; and everything which it was in his mind to make in the house of the Lord and for himself had been well done.

  • 2 Chr 1:16
    67%

    16 And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    67%

    2 And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 10:28
    67%

    28 And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue.