Solomon made a navy of ships; not now in the order in which it is placed in the history, but in the beginning of his reign; as appears, because the almug trees which he used in this work were brought in this navy from Ophir, 1 Kings 10:11,12 2 Chronicles 9:10,11, which was a three years voyage & here, 1 Kings 10:22; for Ophir and Tharshish were either the same place, or one near to another. Eloth, or Elath, as it is called, 2 Kings 14:22. See Deuteronomy 2:8. It is thought to be that famous port on the Red Sea which Ptolemy and Strabo call Elana. In the land of Edom; which David brought under his dominion, and Solomon kept it.
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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.