Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
Ver. 37. And the ships were broken.] By tempest likely; and perhaps lying at anchor in the harbour; as it befell Charles V's navy before the walls of Algiers, besieged by him by sea and by land, and well-nigh taken.