 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...he finished the house. 26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which i» beside 27 o1 28 servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1838 - 574 pages
...distinctly pointed out than the position of this great commercial mart is, in the Sacred Writings. ' And King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber,...on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.' Burckhardt says, ' Near Aila (Akaba) was formerly situated a large and handsome town called Asyoun-Ezyon-geber.'... | |
 | 1838 - 730 pages
...distinctly pointed out than the position of this great commercial mart is, in the Sacred Writings. ' And King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber,...on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.' Burckhardt says, ' Near Aila (Akaba) was formerly situated a large and handsome town called Asyoun-Ezyon-geber.'... | |
 | William Balfour Winning - 1838 - 322 pages
...from which we may infer their naval character. " King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom; and they came to Ophir." (1 Kings, ix. 26.) This communication with the remoter East through the Red Sea,... | |
 | 1838 - 678 pages
...be considered, gtnetally, as representing Migdol. That Eziongcber, the port of Solomon, which was " beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom" (1 Kings, ix. S6), was not in this vicinity, but lay lower down the coast, I shall, probably, at a... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...King Solomon made a navy of ships at Ezion-gcbcr, which is beside EDOM. THE SCRIPTURE GAZETTEER. EDOM. Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the Land of Edom ;" and hence, if Ezion-geber was on the shore of the Red Sea and also in the country of Edom, the Idumean... | |
 | 1839 - 742 pages
...Eileithuia, was worshipped in Tuscany, in the Egyptian Elethyia, and at the harbour of Elath, " which was on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom." The rabbis teach that the Tuscans were a colony of Edomites ; and I have shewn in my " Comparative... | |
 | Samuel Ransom - 1840 - 500 pages
...from the lake Asphaltites to the Arabian Gulf; as appears from 1 Kings ix. 26, where it is said that " king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which...Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom ;" for if Ezion-gebcr were both on the shore of the Red Sea, and in the land of Edom, the land of Edom... | |
 | 1840 - 868 pages
...LORD. So he finished the house. 26 IT And king Solomon made a navy of ships inEzion-geber, which w Edoin. 27 And Hiram sent in the navv hie servants shipmcn that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants... | |
 | James Grigor - 1841 - 504 pages
...cubits, gilded without and within, with the cedar. It is highly probable, too, that king Solomon, who "made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea," drew largely upon Lebanon for such an undertaking ; but whilst there is some doubt on this point, we... | |
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