(Ezekiel 27:25; emphasis added) What About Tarshish Today? Limited Time Offer! In The Wisdom of Solomon 14:6 Noah's ark is called a schedia, a "clumsy ship" (the literal translation "raft" in the Revised Version (British and American) is impossible).In the New Testament there are four words in use:(1) naus (Acts 27:41, the only place where it occurs, designating the large sea-going vessel in which Paul suffered shipwreck). Attempts have been made to identify it with Tarsus of Cilicia, but they are not convincing. Answer (1 of 3): Gog is the Land of Magog, the Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. The Rio Tinto mine just north of Huelva was first worked by the Phoenicians and still produces copper. The harbour was on the north side of the Cornwall Peninsula and has now silted up. These are Russia ,Turkey. (, From the book of Chronicles there would seem to have been a Tarshish accessible from the Red Sea, in addition to the Tarshish of the south of Spain. Jonah Lesson 2 - Part 2 Nineveh/Tarshish/Joppa Watch on Nineveh is located in the north of Iraq and is one of the country's 27 governorates. Again we see that the exact alignment of nations predicted in Ezekiel 38 is in place today. It deals with the rivalry between the Tartessians and the evil Arkabala, the high priest of the Temple of Hercules in the Phoenician city of Gadir (Cdiz), for control of the tin route to las islas Casitrides (the British Isles.) Bible verses about Tarshish. Thecommodities that came Tarshish are listed above and this gives us a clue as to where Tarshish was located. For even not when countries in Europe or on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea where tin is found are very few; and in reference to ancient times, it would be difficult to name any such countries except Iberia or Spain, Lusitania, which was somewhat less in extent than Portugal, and Cornwall in Great Britain. Sometime in the geological past, great fissures occurred in the granite. The same partnership existed for the commerce of the West. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. The Spanish Empire was a dominant world influence in between the late 15th century until the early 19th century. Tyre (in modern-day Lebanon) is one of the oldest cities in the world, dating back over 4,000 years, during which it has been inhabited almost continuously. The queen is first mentioned in I Kings 10:1-13 and in II Chronicles 9:1-12 in the Bible, then in the later Aramaic Targum Sheni, then the Quran, and finally the Ethiopian work known as the Kebra Negast; later . AUSTRALIA, There is no doubt Cornwall was the source of tin from the earliest times and that, It is possible that copper was mined in Spain but tin from Britain was mixed with it to make bronze. Thompson, C.M. Again, cedar trees were brought from Lebanon by sea to Joppa, and thence conveyed to Jerusalem (Ezra 3:7).From Joppa Jonah fled to avoid compliance with God's command to go to Nineveh and preach repentance there (Jonah 1:1). The storm not abating, they were driven past the Pillars of Hercules, and at last, by some special guiding providence, reached Tartessus. There are more than twenty references in the Old Testament to Tarshish (pronounced as: Tar-ish), but where in the world was the land of Tarshish? Some think there was a Tarshish in the East, on the Indian coast, seeing that " ships of Tarshish" sailed from Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea ( 1 . Trade existed from this location in the time of King Solomon (ruled circa 970-931 BC) and the Phoenician king Hiram. This Corpus dates between 1200 and 586BC, and the hoards in it are all silver-dominant. More than once Jesus made special use of a boat. Some 19th-century commentators believed that Tarshish was Britain, including Alfred John Dunkin who claimed "Tarshish demonstrated to be Britain" (1844), George Smith (1850),[29] James Wallis and David King's The British Millennial Harbinger (1861), John Algernon Clarke (1862), and Jonathan Perkins Weethee of Ohio (1887). The end of the known world in his day was beyond the Pillars of Hercules which stand on either side of the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic which was described as the ocean. It took three whole years to make the trip, and the merchant ships came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys (2 Chronicles 9:21 NKJV). If Spain were Tarshish then one would expect that she and her colonies would be a major maritime and military power in the last days along with her young lions in South America but the opposite is the case. Bethsaida at the northern end of the Lake and Tarichea at the southern end were great centers of the trade. Tiras is the seventh and youngest son of Japheth in the Bible. In the same book the drunkard, because of his unnatural insensibility to danger, is likened to a man "that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast" (23:34); and among the inscrutable things of the world the writer includes "the way of a ship in the midst of the sea" (30:19). Ezekiel 27:12. However, Solomon's Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, making archaeological evidence difficult to uncover. For in the first place the name Eridanus is manifestly not a barbarian word at all, but a Greek name, invented by some poet or other; and secondly, though I have taken vast pains, I have never been able to get an assurance from an eye-witness that there is any sea on the further side of Europe. In the Book of Proverbs the ideal woman who brings her food from far is like "the merchant ships" (31:14). 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. In the late Bronze Age and into the early Iron Age, tin was a necessary ingredient for making bronze. ", Tarshish is placed on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by several biblical passages,[18] and more precisely: west of Israel. Nineveh was located at the intersection of important north-south and east-west trade routes, and its proximity to a tributary of the Tigris, the Khawar River, added to the value of the fertile agricultural and pastoral . He found a ship bound for Tarshish as far toward the West as Nineveh to the East. Control of this precious metal which the Tartessians combined with copper to produce bronze, allows the Tartessians to live in great comfort. "(4) skaphe, "boat" (Acts 27:16, 30, 32, where it means the small boat of the ship in which Paul was being conveyed as a prisoner to Rome).Cognate expressions are: "shipmen," 'anshe 'oniyoth (1 Kings 9:27); nautai (Acts 27:27, 30 the King James Version, "sailors" the Revised Version (British and American)); "mariners," mallachim (Jonah 1:15 Ezekiel 27:9, 27, 29), shaTim (Ezekiel 27:8 the King James Version, "rowers" the Revised Version (British and American); Ezekiel 27:26, the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)); "pilot," chobhel (Jonah 1:6 Ezekiel 27:8, 27, 28, 29); "sailing," "voyage," plous (Acts 21:7; Acts 27:9, 10, the Revised Version (British and American) "voyage" in all verses).I. With such uncertainty surroundingTartessus it would be dangerous toassert that Spain was the Tarshishof Scripture which was a maritimepower in the days of Solomon and which was the source of minerals for the great tradingcity of Tyre when Ezekielwrote in the 6th century BC. Tartessus, an ancient city between two mouths of the Guadalquiver, in the south of Spain. Some think there was a Tarshish in the East, on the Indian coast, seeing that "ships of Tarshish" sailed from Eziongeber, on the Red Sea (, Probably Tartessus, a city and emporium of the Phoenicians in the south of Spain, represented as one of the sons of Javan. Ezekiel, in 587BC described all of the commodities sold in the market place of Tyre and stated that. The question as to the locality of Tarshish has given rise to not a little discussion. ( Genesis 10:4 ; 1Kings 10:22 ; 1Chronicles 1:7 ; Psalms 48:7 ; Isaiah 2:16 ; Jeremiah 10:9 ; Ezekiel 27:12 Ezekiel 27:25 ; Jonah 1:3 ; 4:2 ) The identity of the two places is rendered highly probable by the following circumstances: 1st. 2 Chronicles 20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works. Mosul is its modern day name. PO Box 4216 There is no other known such concentration of silver hoards in contemporary Mediterranean, and its date-range overlaps with the reigns of King Solomon (990931BC) and Hiram of Tyre (980947BC). Now Caesarea has disappeared; and Joppa has only an open roadstead where vessels lie without shelter, and receive and discharge cargo and passengers by means of boats plying between them and the shore. T. K. Cheyne (18411915) thought that "Tarshish" of Genesis 10:4[26] and "Tiras" of Genesis 10:2[27] are really two names of one nation derived from two different sources, and might indicate the Tyrsenians or Etruscans.[28]. .hide-if-no-js { Of the presumably larger vessel, also an Alexandrian corn ship bound for Rome, which had wintered in Melita, and which afterward took on board the shipwrecked party (Acts 28:11), "the sign" (parasemon) is given, and she is called "The Twin Brothers." 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? The fare (cakhar) paid by him as a passenger, the hold of the ship in which he stowed himself away (cephinah), the crew (mallachim) the captain or shipmaster (rabh ha-chobhel), the storm, the angry sea, the terrified mariners and their cry to their gods, and the casting of Jonah overboard to appease the raging waters-all make a lifelike picture.It was in the time of Simon, the last survivor of the Maccabean brothers, that Joppa became a seaport with a harbor for shipping-"Amid all his glory he took Joppa for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea" (1 Maccabees 14:5). The last mine closed in 2004. (2) One of the "seven princes" at the court of Ahasuerus (Esther 1:14 Massoretic Text). When Job compares his days to "the swift ships" ("the ships of reed" the Revised Version margin), the allusion is most likely to Egypt's, these being skiffs with a wooden keel and the rest of bulrushes, sufficient to carry one person, or at most two, and light, to travel swiftly (9:26). From this cooperation in the building of the Temple there grew up a larger connection in the pursuit of sea-borne commerce. Tartessus may well have been the Arabic form of the name Tarshish and the Spanish appear to identify Tartessians as the early Britons. The Psalmist takes it as a proof of the power of Yahweh that He breaks the ships of Tarshish with an east wind (Psalm 48:7). It is also true thatthe mountains of Wales, just north of Cornwall have been a source of all the mineralslisted in Ezekiel 27:12. SHIPS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT1. Elle se rendit auprs de Salomon, et elle lui dit tout ce qu'elle avait . [22], Rufus Festus Avienus the Latin writer of the 4th century AD, identified Tarshish as Cadiz. The fact that a British mining company in the 19th century called it Tharsis is more likely to point to Britain being Tarshish. The same evidence from hacksilber is said to fit with what the ancient Greek and Roman authors recorded about the Phoenicians exploiting many sources of silver in the western Mediterranean to feed developing economies back in Israel and Phoenicia soon after the fall of Troy and other palace centers in the eastern Mediterranean around 1200BC. 3rd. [5] Cross read the inscription to understand that it was referring to Tarshish as Sardinia. Tarshish is the name of the Phoenician colony on the river Tartessus, called also Baetis, the modern Guadalquivir. Spain colonized South America but Britain colonized the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many more places. Wail, you inhabitants of the coast! It was also a victory of sorts over Britain, for it was her sailing ships that left the coast when the United Nations pronounced the independence of Israel. This seemingly rules out Spain as Tarshish and the Latin American countries as the young lions. From these verses commentators consider that "Ships of Tarshish" was used to denote any large trading ships intended for long voyages whatever their destination,[3] and some Bible translations, including the NIV, go as far as to translate the phrase ship(s) of Tarshish as "trading ship(s). Archealogical research in Cornwall recently identified ancient harbour facilities along with evidence of ancient structures. In the Gospels2. The second son of Javan, Genesis 10:4. They are also associatedwith Sheba and Dedan whosedescendants populated theArabian Peninsula. 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). 1. The land of Meshech is closely associated with that of Tubal, especially in a prophecy of Ezekiel. In the boat on which Jesus and the disciples were crossing the Lake after the feeding of the 5,000, Jesus was in the stern "asleep on the cushion" (Mark 4:38, the King James Version "a pillow"; Greek proskephalaion, "headrest"). The reason for this was not simply the tempestuous character of the weather, but the obscuration of the heavens which prevented observations being taken for the steering of the ship (Acts 27:20).3. The Jewish-Portuguese scholar, politician, statesman and financier Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508 A.D.) described Tarshish as "the city known in earlier times as Carthage and today called Tunis." One possible identification for many centuries preceding the French scholar Bochart (d. Does Nineveh exist today? 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. [20] Some modern scholars identify Tarshish with Tartessos, a port in southern Spain, described by classical authors as a source of metals for the Phoenicians, while Josephus' identification of Tarshish with the Cilician city of Tarsus is even more widely accepted. 2nd. Both Britain and Spain have had many colonies and have been great maritime powers but the British navy defeated the Spanish Armadas and Spain isno longer a great maritime powerwhereas the US began with British colonies and has seven navies that rule the worlds sea lanes. Sixth-named of the seven sons of Bilhar, the grandson of Benjamin ( 1Ch 7:10 ). Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning, a Sanscrit or Aryan word, meaning "the sea coast.". nine Of internal navigation, beyond the fishing-boats on the Sea of Galilee which belong exclusively to the New Testament, the ferry boat on the Jordan (2 Samuel 19:18, `abharah) alone receives notice, and even that is not perfectly clear (the Revised Version margin "convoy," but a "ford" is doubtless meant). 483. (a) As regards rigging, the Phoenician ships of the time of Ezekiel, as seen in Assyrian representations, had one mast with one yard and carried a square sail. Meshech (whose name means "long, tall, or drawn out by force") is the sixth son of Japheth. 10:9; Ezek. At the end of his story, Jonah specifies his reason for resistance: "That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. Tarshish in Scripture has "young lions" or offshoot nations such as colonies. Sealed silver in Iron Age Cisjordan and the 'invention' of coinage. In the Oracle against Tyre, the prophet Ezekiel (27:12) mentions that silver, iron, lead, and tin came to Tyre from Tarshish (Trsys). This seemingly rules out Spain as Tarshish and the Latin American countries as the young lions. The Greeks refer to the Cassiterides, or tin islands, and describe them as being situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe. It is in ships of Tarshish that the prophet of the Return sees the exiles borne in crowds to Jerusalem as their natural home (Isaiah 60:9).From Solomon's time onward the kings of Judah retained their hold upon Eloth (1 Kings 22:48 2 Chronicles 20:35-37) till it was seized by the Syrians in the days of Ahaz (2 Kings 16:6). Thompson, C.M. In Ezekiel 38:10-13 God is speaking through the Prophet Ezekiel to Gog of Magog, a confederacy of nations from the north, who would invade a land of "unwalled villages" (Israel). According to historians, Nineveh is an ancient city in present day Iraq. Not only is that name connected with the tribe of Benjamin, but it is the ancient name of a city in southern Spain. Tin was a very important and valuable raw material for the ancient world. Thompson and Skaggs[10] argue that the Akkadian inscriptions of Esarhaddon (AsBbE) indicate that Tarshish was an island (not a coastland) far to the west of the Levant. The Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Targum of Jonathan render Tarshish as Carthage, but other biblical commentators as early as 1646 (Samuel Bochart) read it as Tartessos in ancient Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula), near Huelva and Sevilla today. It was originally known as Ninua, a great trade centre. Ezekiel 38:8, 16 notifies that this is a prophecy that finds fulfillment in the last days. (2) ploiarion, "a little boat" (Mark 3:9 and two other places, John 6:22; 21:8). Nicol. Of theextreme tracts of Europe towards the west I cannot speak with any certainty; for I do not allow that there is any river, to which the barbarians give the name of Eridanus, emptying itself into the northern sea, whence (as the tale goes) amber is procured; nor do I know of any islands called the Cassiterides (Tin Islands), whence the tin comes which we use. Ezekiel 38:13 imparts several important clues to the reader. Solomon's ships were so styled ( 1Kings 10:22 ; 22:49 ). The size of the vessel is indicated by the fact that there were 276 persons on board, crew and passengers all told (Acts 27:37). In this case, however, the ships are not war ships, but more probably merchant ships, or ships for pleasure, sailing in the Euphrates. TARSHISH (Heb. It is reputed to be the oldest mine in the world.). Put and Libya are located in northern Africa. 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. Tiras. It seems as though today, Britain, as Tarshish, is now playing a subservient role behind the young lions of America in important . "[4] One possible identification for many centuries preceding the French scholar Bochart (d.1667), and following the Roman historian Flavius Josephus (d.100AD), had been with inland town of Tarsus in Cilicia (south-central Turkey). The ships of Tarshish were carriers of your (Tyre's) merchandise. Gen 10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary - Tarshish, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tarshish, The name of a place which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon. 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