TARSHISH

Passages on this topic · 34

• Genesis 10:4

  The sons of Javan were: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

• Genesis 10:5

  Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

• 1 Kings 10:22

  For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• 1 Kings 22:48

  Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.

• 1 Chronicles 1:7

  The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

• 1 Chronicles 7:10

  The son of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

• 2 Chronicles 9:21

  For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

• 2 Chronicles 20:36

  He joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish. They made the ships in Ezion Geber.

• Esther 1:14

  and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

• Psalms 48:7

  With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

• Psalms 72:10

  The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

• Isaiah 2:16

  For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

• Isaiah 23:1

  The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

• Isaiah 23:2

  Be still, you inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

• Isaiah 23:3

  On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

• Isaiah 23:4

  Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have not travailed, nor given birth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins.”

• Isaiah 23:5

  When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

• Isaiah 23:6

  Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

• Isaiah 23:7

  Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

• Isaiah 23:8

  Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

• Isaiah 23:9

  Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

• Isaiah 23:10

  Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

• Isaiah 23:11

  He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

• Isaiah 23:12

  He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”

• Isaiah 23:13

  Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.

• Isaiah 23:14

  Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

• Isaiah 60:9

  Surely the islands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

• Isaiah 66:19

  “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

• Jeremiah 10:9

  There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; Blue and purple are their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

• Ezekiel 27:12

  Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.

• Ezekiel 27:25

  The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

• Ezekiel 38:13

  Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the plunder? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?

• Jonah 1:3

  But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

• Jonah 4:2

  He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.