And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, seaman that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Fleet, from Tyre, (Calmet) or from the island of the same name, in the Red Sea. (Grotius) Ver. 28. Ophir, in the East Indies; (Menochius) an island called Taprobana, or Sumatra; (Salien) or a country near the heads of the Euphrates and Tigris. (Calmet, Dissert.)
The variety of opinions is astonishing. Huet fixes upon Sophola, on the eastern coast of Africa; and supposes that the fleet of Hiram might proceed down a canal, which seems to have been formerly opened for a communication between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. (Strabo i. 17., and ii.) (Du Hamel)
The various commodities might be procured either in Africa, or, on the voyage, in other countries. (Haydock)
Twenty. Paralipomenon reads fifty. The letter c (20) and n (50) may easily have been mistaken. (Huet)
The thirty talents might be the value of other parts of the cargo, or might be spent in repairs and wages. (Calmet)
The sum here mentioned might be also refined gold. (Menochius)
