Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish, х `aasaah (H6213) 'ªniyowt (H591)] - Jehoshaphat had ten ships. [The Septuagint, Vatican, omits 1 Kings 22:47-48; Alexandrine, from which our translators have borrowed, reading `aasaah (H6213) for 'aasaar, renders, kai ho basileus Ioosafat epoieesen neeas tou poreutheenai, and king Jehoshaphat ships to go (see the notes at "Tharshish," 1 Kings 10:22: cf. 2 Chronicles 8:17-18).]
But they went not; for the ships were broken. It appears that Jehoshaphat was desirous of reviving the trading voyages of Solomon's days, and as the record bears that they were to debark from the same port, it is probable that he contemplated the same circuitous route (see the notes at 2 Chronicles 20:36-37).