World English Bible

1 Kings 22:48

“Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.”

Verse in context — 1 Kings 22

The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.

Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships." But Jehoshaphat would not.

Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.