Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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- KJV And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
- BSB Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
- NKJV Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- NASB Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all of these were the sons of Joktan.
- NLT Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.
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- 1 Kgs 9:28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
- Isa 13:12I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
- 1 Chr 9:10Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,
- 1 Chr 9:13and their brothers, heads of their fathers’ houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of God’s house.
- 1 Kgs 22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.
- Job 22:24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
- 1 Chr 8:18Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
- Ps 45:9Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
- Job 28:16It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- 1 Sam 15:7Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
- Gen 25:18They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
- Gen 2:11The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
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