made a navy: 2 Chronicles 8:12, 2 Chronicles 8:17, 18-11:4
Eziongeber: 1 Kings 22:48; Numbers 33:35; Deuteronomy 2:8
Eloth: 2 Kings 14:22
shore: Heb. lip
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1 Kings 9:26
1 Kings 9:26
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