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2 Chronicles 9:21

2 Chronicles 9:21 is verse 21 of 2 Chronicles chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

Or a fleet of trading ships; twice in this verse

Hebrew Huram’s, a variant of Hiram’s

Or baboons

BSB source and public domain terms

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

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2 Chronicles 9:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.

20 All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

21 For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

22 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

23 All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

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Hebrew words

כִּֽיforאֳנִיּ֤וֹתshipsלַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙of the kingהֹלְכ֣וֹת[were] goingתַּרְשִׁ֔ישׁTarshishעִ֖םwithעַבְדֵ֣י[the] servants ofחוּרָ֑םHuramאַחַת֩one [time]לְשָׁל֨וֹשׁto threeשָׁנִ֜יםyearsתָּב֣וֹאנָהthey cameאֳנִיּ֣וֹתships ofתַּרְשִׁ֗ישׁTarshishנֹֽשְׂאוֹת֙carryingזָהָ֣בgoldוָכֶ֔סֶףand silverשֶׁנְהַבִּ֥יםivori<es>וְקוֹפִ֖יםand monkeysוְתוּכִּיִּֽיםand apes

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Kings 10:22

For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 22:48

Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

Job 39:13

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

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