In Other Books:In 2 Corinthians 11:25 Paul mentions among sufferings he had endured for Christ's sake that thrice he had suffered shipwreck, and that he had been "a night and a day in the deep," implying that he had been in danger of his life clinging to a spar, or borne upon a hurriedly constructed raft. (2) Assyria and Babylonia.The Assyrians and Babylonians were mainly an inland people, but their rivers gave them considerable scope for navigation. Tarsus is an ancient city on the alluvial plain of ancient Cilicia, the birthplace of St. Paul (Acts of the Apostles 22:3). 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). Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Works on the monuments like Layard, Nineveh, II, 379;; Maspero, Ancient Egypt and Assyria; Ball, Light from the East, and Reissner, Cairo Museum Catalogue, "Models of Ships and Boats," 1913, contain descriptions and figured representations which are instructive. 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. In the Gospels:It is the fishing-boats of the Sea of Galilee which exclusively occupy attention in the Gospels. 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"). It is also true thatthe mountains of Wales, just north of Cornwall have been a source of all the mineralslisted in Ezekiel 27:12. Today the population of the United States is made up basically of Celto-Saxon . Already in the time of David commercial relations had been established between Israel and Tyre (2 Samuel 5:11 f). Ships of Tarshish were no doubt ships actually built for the Tarshish trade (2 Chronicles 20:36 Jonah 1:3), but the expression became a general designation for large sea-going vessels to any quarter. At the height of its glory in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E., the ancient city of Babylon was the largest and wealthiest in the world. If we can locate Tarshish in the ancient world we can identify Tarshish in the last- days prophecies. Tarshish was a nation that was rich in minerals and supplied the known world in the 6th century BC through the markets at the coastal city of Tyre. Elle avait une suite fort nombreuse, et des chameaux portant des aromates, de l'or en grande quantit et des pierres prcieuses. In the Gospels2. 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. It was at Ezion-geber near to Eloth on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom which David had conquered, that Solomon built his fleet, "a navy of ships" (1 Kings 9:26-28). The articles which Tarshish is stated by the prophet Ezekiel, ( Ezekiel 27:12 ) to have supplied to Tyre are precisely such as we know, through classical writers, to have been productions of the Spanish peninsula. (2) One of the "seven princes" at the court of Ahasuerus (Esther 1:14 Massoretic Text). From this cooperation in the building of the Temple there grew up a larger connection in the pursuit of sea-borne commerce. As with all these names, Tarshish denotes a country; in several instances, indeed, it is mentioned as a maritime country lying in the remotest region of the earth. Tarshish was said to have exported vast quantities of important metals to Phoenicia and Israel. 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. Isaiah 23:1 The burden of Tyre. The most important thing to know about Tarshish. Meshech (also spelled Meshek) and Tubal were sons of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah who survived the flood with him ( Genesis 10:1-2 ). This new version melded a wealth of literary and Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions . Dedan; Idumeans, or the most easterly parts of Arabia Deserta: by these are noted the eastern nations that assisted, say some. SHIPS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT1. They will be the first to bring the redeemednation of Israel back to the landwhen Christ returns (Isaiah 60:9). In the Oracle against Tyre, the prophet Ezekiel (27:12) mentions that silver, iron, lead, and tin came to Tyre from Tarshish (Trsys). It was a Phoenician colony, and was the most celebrated emporium in the west to which the Hebrews and Phoenicians traded. 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). For "ship" The Wisdom of Solomon 5:10 has naus. 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. Herodotus indicated that he had no evidence of the North Sea on the north of Europe. The Spanish-speaking South American nations are also weak and still developing. Genesis 10:4 1 Chronicles 1:7. The second son of Javan, Genesis 10:4. "Ships of Kittim" are mentioned in Daniel (11:30). Where did the minerals from Tarshish come from? When Antiochus IV Epiphanes planned his expedition against Egypt, he had with other armaments "a great navy," presumably ships of war (1 Maccabees 1:17); and at a later time Antiochus VII speaks expressly of "ships of war" (1 Maccabees 15:3).2. This boat is said in Luke's narrative to have been Simon's, and it seems from references to it as "the boat" on other occasions to have been generally at the disposal of Jesus.2. 2 Chroniques 9Louis Segond. The Assyrian monuments contain representations of naval engagements and of operations on the seacoast. It is conceived of in Hebrew literature as remote (Isaiah 66:19 Jonah 1:3; Jonah 4:2), as rich (Psalm 72:10 Jeremiah 10:9), as powerful in commerce (Ezekiel 38:13). It may be that the ships of Tarshish brought minerals from Spain but it is unlikely that they brought tin from Spain since its source wasCornwallon the south west of Britain. 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. However, it seems that one of those metals was not plentiful in Spain and that metal was tin. There seems to have been a special relation between Tarshish and Tyre, as there was at one time between Tartessus and Phoenicians. In James 3:4 Revelation 8:9; Revelation 18:17;, it is rendered "ship. 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). The king of Greece being signified by a "shaggy" goat. Javan had four sons of whom Tarshish was the second. Sealed silver in Iron Age Cisjordan and the 'invention' of coinage. Thus we read: The southwesternpart of theIberianPeninsulawasenormouslyrich inminerals,andEzekielsreferencereflects a Daniel 8:21. He was going in the total opposite direction that God told him to go, on a boat travelling as far as they go. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Prove You\'re Human: * Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., D.D. As early as the 4th century BC, the Greeks, Phoenicians and Carthaginians traded for Cornish tin. According to historians, Nineveh is an ancient city in present day Iraq. The question as to the locality of Tarshish has given rise to not a little discussion. [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. Nineveh, the oldest and most-populous city of the ancient Assyrian empire, situated on the east bank of the Tigris River and encircled by the modern city of Mosul, Iraq. One view locates Tarshish to the East, accessible from Solomon's great seaport at Ezion Geber on the Red Sea. All rights reserved. One of them is that the merchants (of Tarshish) are concerned about the motives of the invaders. Where is Tarshish today? 3. 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). Among Neighboring Nations:(1) Egypt.The Egyptians, like other nations of antiquity, had a great horror of the open sea, although they were expert enough in managing their craft upon the Nile. Tyre was a maritime power and she built her own ships to bring merchandise to Tyre. [19][20] It is described as a source of various metals: "beaten silver is brought from Tarshish" (Jeremiah 10:9), and the Phoenicians of Tyre brought from there silver, iron, tin and lead (Ezekiel 27:12). The storm not abating, they were driven past the Pillars of Hercules, and at last, by some special guiding providence, reached Tartessus. I think this is an amazing Old Testament verse, in the fact that it mentions both God the father and Jesus the son, who is called the Holy One of Israel. It is also a prophecy that was literally fulfilled in the last years before 1948. They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. The Greeks refer to the Cassiterides, or tin islands, and describe them as being situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe. Marayong NSW 2148 The ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish. American scholars William F. Albright (18911971) and Frank Moore Cross (19212012) suggested Tarshish was Sardinia because of the discovery of the Nora Stone, whose Phoenician inscription mentions Tarshish. Tarshish is a family name found among Jews of Ashkenazic descent. In Luke's writings there are many nautical terms, peculiar to him, used with great exactitude and precision.When Paul had appealed to Caesar and was proceeding to Rome in charge of Julius, the centurion, along with other prisoners, a ship of Adramyttium, a coasting vessel, carried the party from Caesarea along the Syrian coast, northward of Cyprus, past Cilicia and Pamphylia, to Myra of Lycia. Ezekiel 38:8, 16 notifies that this is a prophecy that finds fulfillment in the last days. 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. Tarshish is also the name of a modern village in the Mount Lebanon District of Lebanon . Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. . TARSHISH tr' shsh ().KJV alternately THARSHISH thr' shsh. Gonzalez de Canales, F.; Serrano, L.; & Llompart, J. There are three schools of thought where Tarshish is concerned. The prophecies concerning Tarshish best fit Britain. 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. In Wisdom, human life is described "as a ship passing through the billowy water, whereof, when it is gone by, there is no trace to be found, neither pathway of its keel in the billows" (Wisd 5:10). Esarhaddon, Aur Babylon E (AsBbE) (=K18096 and E6262 in the British Museum and Istanbul Archaeological Museum, respectively) preserves "All the kings from the lands surrounded by sea from the country Iadanana (Cyprus) and Iaman, as far as Tarsisi (Tarshish) bowed to my feet." One view locates Tarshish to the East, accessible from Solomon's great seaport at Ezion Geber on the Red Sea. The ancient capital of Saudi Arabia is still called Dedan on many maps today. ], William Parkin - 1837 "Festus Avinus says expressly that Cadiz was Tarshish. Ships in the Old Testament and Apocrypha.1. Jonah 1:3; 4:2. Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? (Book 3, para 115). Isaiah speaks of "vessels of papyrus upon the waters" of the Upper Nile, on board of which are the messengers of Cush or Ethiopia returning to tell the tidings of the overthrow of Assyria to the inhabitants of those remote lands (18:2 the King James Version has "bulrushes" instead of "papyrus"). You were filled and very glorious in the midst of the seas. }. 10:9; Ezek. God told the prophet Jonah to go and preach to the people of Nineveh, But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD (Jonah 1:3). For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. [23] This is the theory espoused by Father Mapple in Chapter 9 of Moby Dick.[24]. One or two of the particulars of this description may be commented upon. Isaiah 66:19 "I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. 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 . Tarshish was a son of Javan, who settled the area of Southern Greece. Tiras is the seventh and youngest son of Japheth in the Bible. Thompson, C.M. Tarshish is the name of the Phoenician colony on the river Tartessus, called also Baetis, the modern Guadalquivir. Nevertheless, different sources have referred to it as a city, a mountain, even a river the Guadalquivir. Another example can be found in Psalms 48 where we read that, Fear took hold of them [the Kings] there, and pain as of a woman in birth pangs, as when You break the ships of Tarshish (Psalms 48:6-7). During the Tribulation one third of the ships will be destroyed during the 2nd Trumpet judgment (Revelation 8:9) and Tarshish must therefore be agreat shipping nation in the lastdays. Tarshish here is a reference to the mercantile power of Britain which is inextricably linked with the Emirs of Arabia. Tarshish also occurs 25times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible with various meanings: This is repeated in 2Chronicles20:37 preceded by the information that the ships were actually built at Ezion-geber, and emphasizing the prophecy of the otherwise unknown Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah against Jehoshaphat that "Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the Lord will destroy what you have made." It was originally known as Ninua, a great trade centre. Luke has made no note of the name of this or of the previous vessels in which Paul had voyaged. to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil? Gomer is Southern Russia, and Germany. = However, Solomon's Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, making archaeological evidence difficult to uncover. Its importance stems in part from the fact that Hebrew biblical passages tend to understand Tarshish as a source of King Solomon's great wealth in metals especially silver, but also gold, tin, and iron (Ezekiel27). It is fitting, therefore, that in his dirge over the downfall of the mistress of the sea, Ezekiel should represent Tyre as a gallant ship, well built, well furnished, and well manned, broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, fallen into the heart of the seas in the day of her ruin. ), translated "vessel" in The Wisdom of Solomon 14:1, but "ship" elsewhere. Bochart, the 17thcentury French Protestant pastor, suggested in his Phaleg (1646) that Tarshish was the city of Tartessos in southern Spain. (1 Kings 10:21) Tarshish remained a viable and identifiable location for many centuries, until at least the 6th century BC. 2nd. Probably Tartessus, a city and emporium of the Phoenicians in the south of Spain, represented as one of the sons of Javan. It seems as though today, Britain, as Tarshish, is now playing a subservient role behind the young lions of America in important geo . The friendly cooperation was continued by Solomon, who availed himself not only of the cedar and the fir at Hiram's command on Lebanon, but also of the skilled service of Hiram's men to bring the timber from the mountains to the sea. (3) Phoenicia.It was from the Phoenicians that the Mediterranean peoples learned seamanship and skill in navigation. to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? Its one of those words that we often skip over because it seems insignificant or hard to pronounce. 1. It is located on the Tarsus River, about 12 miles (20 km) from the Mediterranean Sea coast. Sheba, Dedan and the Merchants of Tarshish. Again we see that the exact alignment of nations predicted in Ezekiel 38 is in place today. Throughout the Bible Tarshish, the word itself used in different contexts, appears many times in the Bible.In the context of the city, however, Tarshish is both the city (or perhaps city-state) where Jonah made a concerted attempt to flee and where Solomon had a trade agreement. 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). Ezekiel 27:12. What country is Nineveh today? There is a long narrow peninsula in southwest Britain called Cornwall. It appears that this name also is used without reference to any locality. It is said to be buried under the Coto Doana (the combined marshlands and dunes at the mouth of the Guadalquivir that are now protected as a National Park), others claim it is under Seville or Huelva and so on. Tarshish, a port trading in precious metals. "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 2. Tartessus may well have been the Arabic form of the name Tarshish and the Spanish appear to identify Tartessians as the early Britons. hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? Under the ruthless and ambitious King Nebuchadnezzar II, the sprawling settlement in modern-day Iraq grew into a major city as large as Chicago, and boasted towering temples, ornately tiled palaces and imposing city walls thick enough for two chariots to pass . It may be a reminiscence of the sea when Paul in the very earliest of his Epistles (1 Thessalonians 4:16), speaking of the coming of the Lord, says "The Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout" en keleusmati), where the picture is that of the keleustes, giving the time to the rowers on board a ship. In the late Bronze Age and into the early Iron Age, tin was a necessary ingredient for making bronze. Bethsaida at the northern end of the Lake and Tarichea at the southern end were great centers of the trade. 3rd. It was in other directions that Israel made acquaintance with the activities of the sea. Tarshish appears to be a wealthy trading community on the extremity of the Mediterranean world. Tarsus, city, south-central Turkey. Tarshish can refer to either Tarsis in Cilicia (Southeast Turkey) or to Tarshish (Tartessos to the Greeks) in Southwest Spain. In addition, Tarshish and the young lions must be connected to Sheba and Dedan (Arabia) in the last days. 1 Although a number of locations have been proposed, for a long time the consensus has been that Tarshish was located at Tartessos at the mouth of the Gua- dalquivir in southern Spain,2 but in recent years a number of scholars, including Arie van der Kooij and Andr Lemaire, have reargued the older view (first attested. It was a major center of trade and commerce in the ancient world. And there is other evidence as well. Fourth-named of the seven "princes" of Persia in the time of Artaxerxes ( Es 1:14 ). . The developments in Turkey bear careful watch as its leader seeks to establish a more radical Sunni state and support actions to impede the Shiite ambitions of Iran. one Oil is transacted in US dollars. 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." General Editor. They were possessed of a considerable seaboard along the Mediterranean, but the character of their coast gave little encouragement to navigation. (Ezekiel 27:25; emphasis added) What About Tarshish Today? We should note that Cassiterite is tin dioxide from which tin is extracted. ATS Bible Dictionary. Others say Tarshish was on the Iberian Peninsula, like the Southern Coast of Spain. Speaking of Yahweh's wonders to be performed toward His people after Babylon had been overthrown, the prophet declares: "Thus saith Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing" (Isaiah 43:14). It occurs 24 times, originally as a land of people descended from a man named Tarshish in Genesis 10:4 (also 1 Chronicles 1:7). The city was an ancient Phoenician port and industrial center which, in myth, is known as . Hiram joined Solomon in these enterprises which had their center on the Red Sea, and thus the Phoenicians had water communication with the coasts of Arabia and Africa, and even of India. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. This may be referenced in Psalm48:7 which records "By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish." 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