1 Kings 10:11
10:11 (Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.
1 Kings 18:32
18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 1 Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 2 of seed.
1 Kings 22:48
22:48 Jehoshaphat built a fleet of large merchant ships 3 to travel to Ophir for gold, but they never made the voyage because they were shipwrecked in Ezion Geber.
1 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”
2 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.
3 tn Heb “a fleet of Tarshish [ships].” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.