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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Ophir
It was the gold that made Ophir famous across the ancient world. Solomon's ships, sailing with Hiram of Tyre, brought it back in quantity, and the place itself was likely in southern Arabia or along the Red Sea.
It was the gold that made Ophir famous across the ancient world. Solomon's ships, sailing with Hiram of Tyre, brought it back in quantity, and the place itself was likely in southern Arabia or along the Red Sea.
Ophir was a region, likely in southern Arabia or along the Red Sea, famed throughout the ancient world for its fine gold. Solomon's ships, sailing in partnership with Hiram of Tyre, brought back large quantities of gold, precious stones, and rare wood from Ophir, and later biblical poetry uses "gold of Ophir" as shorthand for the finest wealth imaginable. The name also belonged to a son of Joktan in the table of nations, likely the ancestor of a people associated with the region.
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- 1 Kings 10:11
- 1 Chronicles 29:4
- 2 Chronicles 9:10
- Job 22:24
- Job 28:16
- Psalm 45:9
- Isaiah 13:12
