Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.
Parallel translations
- WEB Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- 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.
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Quick answer
The final sons of Joktan are named, including Ophir and Havilah. This completes the list of Joktan's thirteen sons.
Overview
The closing names of Joktan's line include places later known for gold and trade. The verse rounds out the catalog of these Arabian peoples descended from Shem. With the genealogy complete, attention returns to the narrowing line of promise that proceeds toward Abraham and, in time, to Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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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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