to make ships to go to Tarshish. This was prior to the similar event recorded in 1 Kings 22:48; 1 Kings 22:49, where he made (himself) "Tarshish ships to go to Ophir". Ahaziah again sought to implicate Jehoshaphat. But he failed in the attempt, for we there read "Jehoshaphat would not" (2Ch 20:49). And the ships "did not go", for they were "broken" (2Ch 20:48). The marginal note in Authorized Version is neither correct nor necessary.
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2 Chronicles 20:36
36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongeber.