Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 9:27
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1 Kings9:27
27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, ship-men that had knowledge of the sea , with the servants of Solomon.
For which the Tyrians were famous. He sent also Ships to joyn with Solomon's, 2 Chron. 8. 18. not from Tyre, the famous City of Phoenicia, which was in the Midland Sea, from whence he could not Sail to the Red Sea, without fetching a vast compass; but from an Island in the Red-Sea, called Tyre, because it was a Colony of the Tyrians, as Strabo notes.
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