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23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.

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12 I will make people scarcer than gold—
    more rare than the fine gold of Ophir.

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Kings’ daughters are among your noble women.
    At your right side stands the queen,
    wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir!

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24 If you give up your lust for money
    and throw your precious gold into the river,

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I am donating more than 112 tons of gold[a] from Ophir and 262 tons of refined silver[b] to be used for overlaying the walls of the buildings

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Footnotes

  1. 29:4a Hebrew 3,000 talents [102 metric tons] of gold.
  2. 29:4b Hebrew 7,000 talents [238 metric tons] of silver.

11 (In addition, Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir, and they also brought rich cargoes of red sandalwood[a] and precious jewels.

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  1. 10:11 Hebrew almug wood; also in 10:12.

28 They sailed to Ophir and brought back to Solomon some sixteen tons[a] of gold.

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  1. 9:28 Hebrew 420 talents [14 metric tons].

Then Saul slaughtered the Amalekites from Havilah all the way to Shur, east of Egypt.

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18 Ishmael’s descendants occupied the region from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt in the direction of Asshur. There they lived in open hostility toward all their relatives.[a]

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  1. 25:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.

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11 The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.

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