Job 22:24
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24 If you give up your lust for money
and throw your precious gold into the river,
Isaiah 13:12
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12 I will make people scarcer than gold—
more rare than the fine gold of Ophir.
1 Kings 9:28
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28 They sailed to Ophir and brought back to Solomon some sixteen tons[a] of gold.
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- 9:28 Hebrew 420 talents [14 metric tons].
Psalm 45:9
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9 Kings’ daughters are among your noble women.
At your right side stands the queen,
wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir!
Job 31:25
New Living Translation
25 Have I gloated about my wealth
and all that I own?
2 Chronicles 9:27
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27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.[a]
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- 9:27 Hebrew the Shephelah.
2 Chronicles 9:10
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10 (In addition, the crews of Hiram and Solomon brought gold from Ophir, and they also brought red sandalwood[a] and precious jewels.
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- 9:10 Hebrew algum wood (also in 9:11); perhaps a variant spelling of almug. Compare parallel text at 1 Kgs 10:11-12.
2 Chronicles 1:5
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5 But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri and grandson of Hur was there[a] at Gibeon in front of the Tabernacle of the Lord. So Solomon and the people gathered in front of it to consult the Lord.[b]
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1 Kings 22:48
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48 Jehoshaphat also built a fleet of trading ships[a] to sail to Ophir for gold. But the ships never set sail, for they met with disaster in their home port of Ezion-geber.
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- 22:48 Hebrew fleet of ships of Tarshish.
1 Kings 10:21
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21 All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were solid gold, as were all the utensils in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. They were not made of silver, for silver was considered worthless in Solomon’s day!
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Genesis 10:29
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29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.
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