Ophir

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. Son of Joktan

• Genesis 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
• 1 Chronicles 1:23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

2. A country celebrated for its gold and other valuable merchandise

Products of, used by Solomon and Hiram

• 1 Kings 9:28 They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there— 420 talents— and delivered it to Solomon.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2 Chronicles 9:10 (The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.

Jehoshaphat sends ships to, which are wrecked at sea

• 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.

Gold of, proverbial for its fineness

• 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,
• Job 22:24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
• Job 28:16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
• Psalm 45:9 The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
• Isaiah 13:12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.