Devine Scripture

2 Chronicles 9:21

2 Chronicles chapter 9 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Context

v.20And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

v.21This passage

v.22So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:36

    and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.

  • 1 Kings 22:48

    Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.

  • Job 39:13

    The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

  • 1 Kings 10:22

    For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.