Josephus, Flavius · c. 93–94 CE
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passage 467 of 1072 · BOOK I. Containing The Interval Of Three Thousand Eight Hundred And > CHAPTER 6. How Solomon Fortified The City Of Jerusalem, And Built Great (3/4)
↪ you wandered here via “Solomon command Libya” — the connecting lines are tinted below
who were reduced to such domestic slavery, who received the entire care of them from the king, and instructed them in those labors and operations wherein he wanted their assistance.
- Moreover, the king built many ships in the Egyptian Bay of the Red
Sea, in a certain place called Ezion-geber: it is now called Berenice, and is not far from the city Eloth. This country belonged formerly to the Jews, and became useful for shipping from the donations of Hiram king of Tyre; for he sent a sufficient number of men thither for pilots, and such as were skillful in navigation, to whom Solomon gave this command: That they should go along with his own stewards to the land that was of old called Ophir, but now the Aurea Chersonesus, which belongs to India, to fetch him gold. And when they had gathered four hundred talents together, they returned to the king again.
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