Tarshish

thumb| thumb| Tarshish (Phoenician: 𐤕𐤓𐤔𐤔‎ TRŠŠ; Hebrew: תַּרְשִׁישׁ Taršīš; Greek: Θαρσεῖς, Tharseis) occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings, most frequently as a place (probably a large city or region) far across the sea from Phoenicia (modern Lebanon) and the Land of Israel. Tarshish was said to have exported vast quantities of important metals to Phoenicia and Israel. The same place name occurs in the Akkadian inscriptions of Assyrian king Esarhaddon (died 669 BC) and also on the Phoenician inscription of the Nora Stone (around 800 BC) in Sardinia; its precise location was never commonly known, and was eventually lost in antiquity. Legends grew up around it over time so that its identity has been the subject of scholarly research and commentary for more than two thousand years. Quotes And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. Book of Genesis 10:4 KJV. For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 1 Kings 10:22 KJV. Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. 1 Kings 22:49 KJV. And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 1 Chronicles 1:7 KJV. And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 2 Chronicles 9:20–21 (KJV) And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish. 2 Chronicles 20:36-37 KJV. He summoned Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven Persian and Median officials who had special access to the king and were highest in the kingdom. Book of Esther 1:14 NCB. Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. Psalms 48:7 (KJV) The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Psalms 72:10 (KJV) And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. Book of Isaiah 2:16 KJV. Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. Isaiah 23:10 (KJV) Cross over your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint anymore. (ESV) Till your land as they do along the Nile, Daughter Tarshish, for you no longer have a harbor. (NIV) Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. Isaiah 23:14 (KJV) Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. Isaiah 60:9 (KJV) And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. Isaiah 66:19 KJV. Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder. Jeremiah 10:9 (KJV) Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. Ezekiel 27:12 (KJV) The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. Ezekiel 27:25 (KJV) Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? Ezekiel 38:13 (KJV) But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. Jonah 1:3 (KJV) And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Book of Jonah 4:2 KJV. Tartessos thumb| Tartessos or Tartessus (Spanish: Tartesos) is, as defined by archaeologists, a historical civilisation settled in the southern Iberian Peninsula characterised by its mixture of local paleo-Hispanic and Phoenician traits. In the Graeco-Roman historical records, Tartessos (Greek: Ταρτησσός) appears as a semi-mythical or legendary harbour city and the surrounding culture on the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula (in modern Andalusia, Spain), at the mouth of the Guadalquivir. Some scholars have identified Tartessos with the biblical Tarshish. No Amalthéa's horn for me!  Riches I disdain;Nor in Tarshish would I be,To king it for a century  And half as long again. Anacreon, fragment quoted by Strabo, Geography [on the wealth of the Iberians]; see Scholiast on Dionysus Periegetes 332 (Tr. T. F. Higham, OBGVT (1938), p. 221 Herodotus (I, 163) adds the name of the king in question, Arganthonius External links Category:Hebrew Bbile cities Category:Book of Isaiah