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Ophir is, properly speaking, a portion of Arabia, and Arabia was famous for its production of gold, and also for its precious stones. Whether it likewise produced almug-trees is doubtful; and it is quite possible that the joint fleet went further than Ophir proper, and obtained the "almug-wood" from the east coast of Africa, or from India.
Besides sharing with the Phoenicians in the trade of the Mediterranean, he constructed with their help a fleet at Ezion-Geber upon the Red Sea, and the two allies conjointly made voyages to the region, or country, called Ophir, for the purpose of procuring precious stones, gold, and almug-wood.
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