Ezion-geber. — This place is first noticed in Numbers 33:35 and Deuteronomy 2:8 as a station in the wanderings of the Israelites, reached not long before their entrance into Canaan. It lies at the head of the Gulf of Akabah, the nearest point of the Red Sea, on the edge of the mountain country of Edom. Its very name (“the giant’s backbone”) indicates the nature of the country around it, which (it has been noted) could hardly have itself supplied timber for ship-building. But from 2 Chronicles 8:18 it appears that the ships, or the materials from which they were built, were sent from Tyre.
Related Commentaries of 1 Kings 9:26
1 Kings 9:26
26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shorec of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.