Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 10:23-24
See the marginal references. By “all the earth” we are, of course, only to understand the kings or people of neighboring nations. read more
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Albert Barnes
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 10:21
1 Kings 10:21 . It was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon Comparatively, and about his palace; for it is not to be supposed that all his subjects had so much gold as to make no account of silver. But if gold in abundance would make silver seem so despicable, shall not wisdom and grace, and the foretastes of heaven, make gold seem much more so? read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 10:22
1 Kings 10:22. For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish Ships that went to Tharshish. For Tharshish was the name of a place, upon the sea, famous for its traffic with merchants, and a place very remote from Judea, as appears from the three years usually spent in that voyage. But whether it was Spain, where in those times there was abundance of gold and silver, as Strabo and others affirm; or some place in the Indies, it is as needless as it is difficult, if not impossible, to determine.... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 10:23-25
1 Kings 10:23-25. For riches and for wisdom The latter of which he asked of God, who graciously promised to add the former, and did so to a great degree. But what is here said is not to be taken in too strict a sense, but only as intending that he was richer than the kings of the earth in general were at that time. And all the earth sought to Solomon, &c. That is, all the kings of the earth, as it is expressed 2 Chronicles 9:23; namely, of those parts of the earth, or of the... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 10:1-29
Click image for full-size version9:26-11:43 OTHER FEATURES OF SOLOMON’S REIGNTrade, fame and wealth (9:26-10:29)Always alert in business dealings, Solomon saw the opportunity for further profits by cooperating with Hiram in trade transport. Goods from the Mediterranean were received at Hiram’s port of Tyre, taken overland to the Israelite port of Ezion-geber at the northern tip of the Red Sea, then shipped east, possibly as far as India. Since the Israelites were not a seafaring people, Solomon... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Kings 10:22
navy of Tharshish = Tharshish ships, a name for large ocean-going ships (like English "East-Indiamen"). When mentioned as a place it is identified by Oppert with Tartessis = the Andalusia of to-day, noted for silver (not gold), iron, tin, and lead (Jeremiah 10:9 . Ezekiel 27:12 ). They sailed from Tyre to the West Mediterranean, and from Ezion-geber to Ophir (Arabia, India, and East Africa), 1 Kings 9:26-28 and 1 Kings 10:11 . ivory = elephants' tusks. apes, and peacocks. The Hebrew for... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Kings 10:23
A SUMMARY OF SOLOMON'S RICHES"So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year.""A rate year by year" (1 Kings 10:25). The RSV reads this phrase, "so much year by year," indicating that the tribute Solomon... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Kings 10:22
1 Kings 10:22. Bringing gold and silver, ivory, &c.— See the note on chap. 1Ki 9:28 and Scheuchzer on the place. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 10:22
22. a navy of Tharshish—Tartessus in Spain. There gold, and especially silver, was obtained, anciently, in so great abundance that it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. But "Tarshish" came to be a general term for the West (Jonah 1:3). at sea—on the Mediterranean. once in three years—that is, every third year. Without the mariner's compass they had to coast along the shore. The ivory, apes, and peacocks might have been purchased, on the outward or homeward voyage, on the north... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 10:22
This is given as the reason of the great plentifulness of silver in the time of Solomon. The “navy of Tharshish” (not the same as the navy of Ophir, 1 Kings 9:26) must therefore have imported very large quantities of that metal. Tharshish, or Tartessus, in Spain, had the richest silver mines known in the ancient world, and had a good deal of gold also; apes and ivory were produced by the opposite coast of Africa; and, if north Africa did not produce “peacocks,” which is uncertain, she may have... read more