And Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber — Jehoshaphat builds merchant ships to trade for gold, but they are destroyed at the port of Ezion-geber. The phrase shows both his commercial ambition and his inability to secure wealth through human effort alone.

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