Tarshish, Tharshish

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 1min
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(solid, rocky). (1) Second son of Javan (Gen. 10:44And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. (Genesis 10:4)). (2) The city with which the Phoenicians traded. Associated with Tartessus in Spain (Jer. 10:99Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. (Jeremiah 10:9); Ezek. 38:1313Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? (Ezekiel 38:13)). (3) Another Tarshish is inferable from the statement that Solomon’s ships at Ezion-geber on the Red Sea traded with Tarshish or Tharshish (1 Kings 9:26; 22:4826And 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. (1 Kings 9:26)
48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber. (1 Kings 22:48); 2 Chron. 9:2121For 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. (2 Chronicles 9:21); 2 Chron. 20:3636And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. (2 Chronicles 20:36)). But many suppose that a class of ships—“ships of Tarshish,” like “East India merchantmen”—is referred to rather than a port.