And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king Solomon.
Ver. 28. And they came to Ophir,] i.e., To golden Chersonesus, saith Josephus; to Peru, or Hispaniola, say others, who hold that the newly found world, as we call America, was known to Solomon and the ancients; like as the Chinese say that they had the art of printing among them many hundreds of years before we had. The gold of this land is called gold of Parvaim, 2Ch 3:6 that is, of the two Perus, say they; the greater and the lesser.
Four hundred and twenty talents.] At one time: as at another, four hundred and fifty, 2Ch 8:18 for every three years they made a voyage thither, 1Ki 10:22 it being distant from Jerusalem four thousand eight hundred miles, as some have computed it.