From Nave’s Topical Bible
Ophir
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 12Passages listed
- 7Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- 1. Son of JoktanGenesis 10:291 Chronicles 1:23
- 2. A country celebrated for its gold and other valuable merchandise
- Products of, used by Solomon and Hiram1 Kings 9:281 Kings 10:112 Chronicles 8:182 Chronicles 9:10
- Jehoshaphat sends ships to, which are wrecked at sea1 Kings 22:48
- Gold of, proverbial for its fineness1 Chronicles 29:4Job 22:24Job 28:16Psalms 45:9Isaiah 13:12
The passages, in Bible order (12)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
Commentary on Genesis 10:292 voices
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean. For Elam left behind him the Elamites, the ancestors of the Persians. Ashur lived at the city Nineve; and named his subjects …
Josephus· Antiquities of the Jews - Book I, Chapter 6, Sections 4, 100Jewish
- 1 Kings 9:28
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
Commentary on 1 Kings 9:282 voices
And they came to Ophir,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
And they came to Ophir - No man knows certainly, to this day, where this Ophir was situated. There were two places of this name; one somewhere in India, beyond the Ganges, and another in Arabia, near the country of the Sabaeans, mentioned by Job, Job 22:24: Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust; and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. And Job 28:16: It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. Calmet places this country at the sources of the Euphrates and Tigris.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- 1 Kings 10:11
(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
Commentary on 1 Kings 10:111 voice
And the navy also of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 22:48
Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
Commentary on 1 Kings 22:482 voices
Ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold - In the parallel place (2Ch 20:36) it is said that Jehoshaphat joined himself to Ahaziah, to make ships to go to Tharshish; and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. Concerning these places, and the voyage thither, see the notes on 1Ki 9:26-28 (note); 1Ki 10:11 (note), 1Ki 10:22 (note). Some translate, instead of ships of Tharshish, ships of burden. See Houbigant, who expresses himself doubtful as to the meaning of the word.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish,.... Ships to go to sea, particularly the Indian sea, 1Ki 10:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Chronicles 1:23
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- 1 Chronicles 29:4
three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 29:41 voice
Even three thousand talents of gold,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Chronicles 8:18
So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
Commentary on 2 Chronicles 8:181 voice
Knowledge of the sea - Skilful sailors. Solomon probably bore the expenses and his friend, the Tyrian king, furnished him with expert sailors; for the Jews, at no period of their history, had any skill in maritime affairs, their navigation being confined to the lakes of their own country, from which they could never acquire any nautical skill. The Tyrians, on the contrary, lived on and in the sea.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- 2 Chronicles 9:10
(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
- Job 22:24
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
Commentary on Job 22:242 voices
This is what he means, in my opinion: "Confess your sins; receive from God's mouth his support after your confession; and take his words into your heart." Certainly Eliphaz said these things, as he believed, by making himself equal to Job.… However, he pronounces a correct dogma here. He, in fact, thinks that Job suffers his adversities because of his sins but also so that he will be purified through the endurance of his afflictions. Once he is purified, he will be delivered from any extraneous element and freed from any involvement with iniquity.
Origen of Alexandria· FRAGMENTS ON JOB 16.61, 69, 253Patristic
He shall give the flint for earth, and for the flint golden torrents. ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION What is denoted by 'earth' but weakness in conduct, what by the hardness of the flint but strength, what do we understand by 'the golden torrents,' but the instruction of interior brightness? Now to those that turn themselves to Him Almighty God 'gives for earth the flint,' in that for weak conduct He bestows the strength of vigorous practice.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI, 604Patristic
- Job 28:16
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Commentary on Job 28:161 voice
Nor shall it be compared to the dyed colours of India. Nor to the most precious sardonyx stone, nor to the sapphire. For what is meant by India, which furnishes a black people, saving this world, wherein the life of man is engendered dark in respect of sin? Now 'the dyed colours of India' are the wise ones of this world, who though in respect of infidelity, and oftentimes in respect of behaviour, they be foul, yet before the eyes of men are stained with the hue of overlaid honourableness.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII, 604Patristic
- Psalms 45:9
The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
Commentary on Psalms 45:91 voice
The queen … is the soul that is joined with the Word, its Bridegroom; not subjected by sin but sharing the kingdom of Christ, it stands on the right hand of the Savior in gilded clothing, that is to say, adorning itself charmingly and religiously with spiritual doctrines, interwoven and varied.
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 17:9 (PS 45), 379Patristic
- Isaiah 13:12
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
Commentary on Isaiah 13:121 voice
(Verse 12) A man will be more precious than gold and a human more adorned than the world. LXX: And those who have been abandoned will be honored more than refined gold, and a man will be more honorable than the sapphire stone.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic