Job 22:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 9:28 : 28 And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.
  • Isa 13:12 : 12 I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.
  • Gen 10:29 : 29 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
  • 1 Kgs 10:21 : 21 And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.
  • 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 Chr 1:5 : 5 And the altar of brass which Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the Tent of the Lord; and Solomon and all the people went to give worship there.
  • 2 Chr 9:10 : 10 And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.
  • 2 Chr 9:27 : 27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.
  • Job 31:25 : 25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.

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