There are three schools of thought where Tarshish is concerned. Thompson, C.M. The size of the vessel is indicated by the fact that there were 276 persons on board, crew and passengers all told (Acts 27:37). It was the birth pains of a nation being re-born that had not existed in over 2400 years. (Book 3, para 115). No other nation in history has created an empire of colonies like the British Empire. Tarshish was said to have exported vast quantities of important metals to Phoenicia and Israel. In the 19th century there were 400 mines in Cornwall employing 18,000 people. Meshech (whose name means "long, tall, or drawn out by force") is the sixth son of Japheth. Tartessus, an ancient city between two mouths of the Guadalquiver, in the south of Spain. Sheba: see Ezekiel 27:22: this Sheba was southward, and contains all of that coast which assisted Gog. It seems as though today, Britain, as Tarshish, is now playing a subservient role behind the young lions of America in important geo . (2010). [/su_box], Enter your email to receive new articles straight to your Inbox, The Herald of Hope When Simon reared his monument over the sepulcher of his father and brothers at Modin, he set up seven pyramids with pillars, upon which were carved figures of ships to be "seen of all that sail on the sea" (1 Maccabees 13:29). The same partnership existed for the commerce of the West. I Kings 10:22; Jer. General ReferencesIII. Tarshish and the United Monarchy of Israel. Magma from beneath the Earths crust welled up into these cracks and crystallized, leaving behind many different minerals. Tarshish occupied the uttermost parts of the west. There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, one of the great corn fleet carrying grain from Egypt for the multitudes of Rome. This is still reputed to be the "Merchants of Tarshish" today by some Christian sects. However, tin only came from a select few places. Answer (1 of 9): Tarshish - great-grandson of Benjamin; a "king" from the House of Judah, son of Bilhan, son of Jediael, son of Benjamin, son of Israel/Jacob - displaced during the 597 BC Seige of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. 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"). Other candidates for the name "Tarshish" in Biblical-Prophetic terms exist include America as discussed below. The first time it is mentioned in scriptures as a place, it states that King Solomon sent his ships there to trade. Mosul is its modern day name. In the Gospels:It is the fishing-boats of the Sea of Galilee which exclusively occupy attention in the Gospels. have you assembled your company to take the prey? (Tin came primarily from Cornwall in the British Isles, and was brought back by the Phoenicians; it was combined with copper, abundant in south west Spain, to produce bronze. In Other BooksLITERATUREIn the Old Testament the following words are found:(1) The word most commonly used in Hebrew for "a ship" is 'oniyah (Proverbs 30:19 Jonah 1:3, 4), of which the plural 'oniyoth is found most frequently (Judges 5:17 1 Kings 22:48 f, and many other places).The collective term for "a navy of ships" is 'oni (1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 10:22, 'oni Tharshish, "a navy (of ships) of Tarshish"; but Isaiah 33:21, 'oni shayit, a "galley with oars"). 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. Where did the minerals from Tarshish come from? . On shipping and navigation in classical antiquity Smith of Jordanhill, Voyage and Shipwreck of Paul, is still the standard authority.T. Tarshish, a port trading in precious metals. Itineraria Phoenicia. Genesis 10:4 1 Chronicles 1:7. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? It deals with the rivalry between the Tartessians and the evil Arkabala, the high priest of the Temple of Hercules in the Phoenician city of Gadir (Cdiz), for control of the tin route to las islas Casitrides (the British Isles.) Daniel 8:21. (a) As regards rigging, the Phoenician ships of the time of Ezekiel, as seen in Assyrian representations, had one mast with one yard and carried a square sail. His name is from the Hebrew word for desire. Was there a joint nautical venture on the Mediterranean Sea by Tyrian Phoenicians and Early Israelites?'. It is notknown whether Tartessus was a city,a river or a nation. However, Solomon's Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, making archaeological evidence difficult to uncover. Ezekiel's description (chapter 27, with Davidson's notes) brings together more of the features of the ship of antiquity than any other that has come down to us. T. K. Cheyne (18411915) thought that "Tarshish" of Genesis 10:4[26] and "Tiras" of Genesis 10:2[27] are really two names of one nation derived from two different sources, and might indicate the Tyrsenians or Etruscans.[28]. 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. (After the capture of Jerusalem the emperor Titus returned to Italy in such a vessel, touching at Rhegium and landing at Puteoil.) 5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every . Tarshish: Either the UK or Spain, 4. TARSHISH (Heb. 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. Tarshish was an ancient city located in modern day southern Spain, due north of Gilbratar. It was a major center of trade and commerce in the ancient world. Ezekiel regards them as the caravans that bore the merchandise of the mistress of the sea (Ezekiel 27:25). Ezekiel also, foretelling the overthrow of Egypt, speaks of messengers traveling with the news on swift Nile boats to strike terror into the hearts of the "careless Ethiopians" (30:9). There are more than twenty references in the Old Testament to Tarshish (pronounced as: Tar-ish), but where in the world was the land of Tarshish? Today each is just a shadow of their former selves. Control of this precious metal which the Tartessians combined with copper to produce bronze, allows the Tartessians to live in great comfort. I. ], William Parkin - 1837 "Festus Avinus says expressly that Cadiz was Tarshish. It was in other directions that Israel made acquaintance with the activities of the sea. This is shown by the nature of the imports with which the fleet returned, which are specified as "gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks ." Ezekiel 38:13. 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. 10:9; Ezek. "Ships of Tarshish" is an expression sometimes denoting simply ships intended for a long voyage ( Isaiah 23:1 Isaiah 23:14 ), ships of a large size (sea-going ships), whatever might be the port to which they sailed. "Ships of Kittim" are mentioned in Daniel (11:30). (3) ploion, "boat" (Matthew 4:21, 22 and many other places in the Gospels-the ordinary fishingboat of the Sea of Galilee rendered "boat" uniformly in the Revised Version (British and American) instead of "ship" the King James Version), "ship" (Acts 20:13, and all other places where the ship carrying Paul is mentioned, except Acts 27:41, as above). The term tin islands could hardly be applied to Spain which is locatedin mainland Europe but it would fit well with the British Isles. (Ezekiel 27:25; emphasis added) What About Tarshish Today? ), "seems not to have been used in ancient navigation; its purpose was served by the sail, as for example at the battle of Actium the ship of Antony was distinguished by its purple sail. Nineveh was located at the intersection of important north-south and east-west trade routes, and its proximity to a tributary of the Tigris, the Khawar River, added to the value of the fertile agricultural and pastoral . Proud member It prospered from trade with the Phoenicians and Carthaginians but was probably destroyed by the latter about 500 bc. Tarshish appears to be a wealthy trading community on the extremity of the Mediterranean world. Tarshish is mentioned in the prophecies of Scripture as having an important role in the last days. It took three whole years to make the trip, and the merchant ships came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys (2 Chronicles 9:21 NKJV). Tarshish must have been established prior to the 10th century BC. The land of Kittim is Cyprus, and in the references in Isaiah it is associated with Tyre and the ships of Tarshish. The port of ancient Sidon is believed to have been . Ships in the New Testament.1. Spain colonized South America but Britain colonized the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many more places. Tarshish is mentioned in a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah 60:1-12. . They gave you silver, iron, and tin for your goods (Ezekiel 27:12). The Spanish Empire was a dominant world influence between the late 15th century and the early 19th century. Both are now located in Lebanon, with Tyre 20 mi south of Sidon and only 12 mi north of the Israel-Lebanon border. What is Tarshish called today? Young Lions: Either the colonies that came from the UK, namely North America or the offshoots of Spain, mainly the Latin American countries. The USA and NATO use bases in Saudi Arabia to monitor the entire Persian Gulf area. . Tarshish in Scripture has young lions or offshoot nations such as colonies. [3] The Jewish-Portuguese scholar, politician, statesman and financier Isaac Abarbanel (14371508AD) described Tarshish as "the city known in earlier times as Carthage and today called Tunis. In the time of our Lord's ministry in Galilee the shores of the Sea were densely peopled, and there must have been many boats engaged in the fishing industry. Among the Hebrews:(1) In Early Times.In the early books of the Old Testament there are references connecting certain of the tribes, and these northern tribes, with the activities of the sea. 2. The evidence would indicate that Tarshish in ancient times was Great Britain for the following reasons: [su_box title=Conclusion style=bubbles box_color=#e09900 title_color=#000000]We therefore conclude that Britain, as the Tin Isles of ancient times is Tarshish, and that the merchants of Tarshish and the young lions thereof are the offshoots of Britain that will have a major role during the Tribulation period. There is consensus that it existed somewhere in the area between Huelva, Cdiz and Seville, but who the inhabitants were we do not know. Thus we read: The southwesternpart of theIberianPeninsulawasenormouslyrich inminerals,andEzekielsreferencereflects a For Gog (the antichrist) to lead Magog, Meshech, Tubal, and a broader coalition of what are currently Arab-dominated nations and Persia, against Israel, Persia must submit to Gog. The same book notes it as a striking example of the case of a divine and beneficent Providence that "men entrust their lives to a little piece of wood, and passing through the surge on a raft are brought safe to land" (Wisd 14:1-5). For, it was the ships of Great Britain who brought the first of the Jewish refuges from a war torn Europe, to their promised land in Palestine. 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. Jonah 4:2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? [23] This is the theory espoused by Father Mapple in Chapter 9 of Moby Dick.[24]. Jonah Lesson 2 - Part 2 Nineveh/Tarshish/Joppa Watch on Nineveh is located in the north of Iraq and is one of the country's 27 governorates. Ezekiel, in 587BC described all of the commodities sold in the market place of Tyre and stated that. Jonah 1:3; 4:2. Nevertheless, tin and amber do certainly come to us from the ends of the earth. The Assyrian monuments contain representations of naval engagements and of operations on the seacoast. The Jews like the Egyptians and the Assyrians had a natural shrinking from the sea, and Ecclesiasticus interprets their feeling when he says: "They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel" (43:24).III. In The Wisdom of Solomon 14:6 Noah's ark is called a schedia, a "clumsy ship" (the literal translation "raft" in the Revised Version (British and American) is impossible).In the New Testament there are four words in use:(1) naus (Acts 27:41, the only place where it occurs, designating the large sea-going vessel in which Paul suffered shipwreck). ATS Bible Dictionary. There are only two species known: both inhabit the mainland and islands of India; so that the mention of the peacock seems to exclude the possibility of the voyage having been to Africa. Herodotus travelled extensively gathering historical information (and myth)from Greece, Asia, Egypt and Persia but he never travelled to the western end of the Mediterranean or beyond the pillars of Herculeshence he was dependent on reports from others who had. 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. Was Jonah swallowed by a whale? Tiras. There seems to have been a special relation between Tarshish and Tyre, as there was at one time between Tartessus and Phoenicians. to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? There is no restraint any more. Caesarea in New Testament times was a place of shipping and possessed a harbor which Josephus declared to be greater than the Piraeus, but it was Herodian and more Greek and Roman than Jewish. Gen 10:4-5 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. [6] Recent research into hacksilver hoards has also suggested Sardinia. As early as the 4th century BC, the Greeks, Phoenicians and Carthaginians traded for Cornish tin. Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares. 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. In fact, in ancient times, the British Isles were known as the Cassiterides, which means Tin Islands.. From the book of Chronicles there would seem to have been a Tarshish accessible from the Red Sea, in addition to the Tarshish of the south of Spain. 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. Hacksilber objects in these Phoenician hoards have lead isotope ratios that match ores in the silver-producing regions of Sardinia and Spain, only one of which is a large island rich in silver. The main problem is that Tarshish has been used in a variety of ways in the Old Testament. : Southern Phoenician hacksilber hoards and the location of Tarshish', "Chabad Tanakh: Rashi's Commentary on Daniel 10:6", "Chapter 9: The Sermon | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | Lit2Go ETC", "Tarshish in the mountains of Lebanon: Attestations of a Biblical place name", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tarshish&oldid=1140310495, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Silver and iron were minerals that could be found in many locations in the area of the Mediterranean Sea. This view is supported by standard Hebrew language reference books.. 8. Herein, how far is Tarshish from Joppa? Some 19th-century commentators believed that Tarshish was Britain, including Alfred John Dunkin who claimed "Tarshish demonstrated to be Britain" (1844), George Smith (1850),[29] James Wallis and David King's The British Millennial Harbinger (1861), John Algernon Clarke (1862), and Jonathan Perkins Weethee of Ohio (1887). one They were propelled by oars, but no doubt also made use of the sail when the wind was favorable (Luke 8:23), though the pictures which we have in the Gospels are mostly of the boatmen toiling in rowing in the teeth of a gale (Mark 6:48), and struggling with the threatening waves (Matthew 14:24). Cush describes present-day Ethiopia and the black nations of Central Africa. However, it seems that one of those metals was not plentiful in Spain and that metal was tin. This new version melded a wealth of literary and Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions . Others say Tarshish was on the Iberian Peninsula, like the Southern Coast of Spain. "Boat" in 2 Maccabees 12:3, 6 is for skaphos, and "navy" in 1 Maccabees 1:17; 2 Maccabees 12:9; 14:1 for stolos. In Revelation there is a representation of the fall of Babylon in language reminiscent of the fall of Tyre (Ezekiel 27), in which lamentations arise from the merchants of the earth who can no more buy her varied merchandise (ton gomon, "cargo" the Revised Version margin), and shipmasters and passengers and seafaring people look in terror and grief upon the smoke of her burning (Revelation 18:12-18).LITERATURE.The usual books on Greek and Roman antiquities furnish descriptions and illustrations. 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." He is placed on the Timeline of the Bible after the Flood, around 2300 BC. The Hebrews and the Sea.The Hebrews were a pastoral and agricultural people, and had no inducements to follow a seafaring life. The Bible definitely gives the indication that Tarshish was far away from Israel. Experts have positioned it as far away as India in the east and the far coast of Spain in the west. ", Tarshish is placed on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by several biblical passages,[18] and more precisely: west of Israel. He was followed by others, including Hertz (1936). Answer (1 of 3): Gog is the Land of Magog, the Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. Herodotus indicated that he had no evidence of the North Sea on the north of Europe. Contrary to translations that have been rendering Assyrian tar-si-si as 'Tarsus' up to the present time, Thompson argues that the Assyrian tablets inscribed in Akkadian indicate tar-si-si (Tarshish) was a large island in the western Mediterranean, and that the poetic construction of Psalm72:10 also shows that it was a large island to the very distant west of Phoenicia. Tarshish was located on the Mediterranean Sea and was usually identified with the powerful Phoenician trading colony in southwest Spain near modern Cadiz. The masts and yards were made of fir, or of pine, and the sails of linen, but the fiber of papyrus was employed as well as flax in the manufacture of sail-cloth. Gen 10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. Tin was a very important and valuable raw material for the ancient world. It is reputed to be the oldest mine in the world.). Tarshish is also the name of a modern village in the Mount Lebanon District of Lebanon, and Tharsis is a modern village in Southern Spain. The location Tharsis in Spain is probably so named by the. 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). He fixed on "Tarshish" being the site of Kudiramalai, a possible corruption of Thiruketheeswaram.[33][34][35][36][37][38]. There is a very close similarity of name between them, Tartessus being merely Tarshish in the Aramaic form. 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 Simon Maccabeus, however, who built its harbor, and the harbor at Joppa was "the first and only harbor of the Jews" (G. A. Smith, HGHL, 136). Fausset's Bible Dictionary says that the ancient city of Tarshish is located in Southern Spain. Both Britain and Spain have had many colonies and have been great maritime powers but the British navy defeated the Spanish Armadas and Spain isno longer a great maritime powerwhereas the US began with British colonies and has seven navies that rule the worlds sea lanes. 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? Thecommodities that came Tarshish are listed above and this gives us a clue as to where Tarshish was located. Sir Peter le Page Renouf (18221897)[25] thought that "Tarshish" meant a coast, and, as the word occurs frequently in connection with Tyre, the Phoenician coast is to be understood. It is the association of Sheba and Dedan with "the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions" (Ezek 38:13) which helps to define these powers. In the late Bronze Age and into the early Iron Age, tin was a necessary ingredient for making bronze. commonassociation of the metal withthe western Mediterranean. They are recorded for us in the Acts by Luke, who, as Sir William Ramsay puts it, had the true Greek feeling for the sea (St. Paul the Traveler, 21). Put is Libya. Tartessus, ancient region and town of the Guadalquivir River valley in southwestern Spain, probably identical with the Tarshish mentioned in the Bible. The ancient capital of Saudi Arabia is still called Dedan on many maps today. September 22, 2018 by admin Filed under For Him. The metals were reportedly obtained in partnership with King Hiram of Phoenician Tyre (Isaiah23), and fleets of ships from Tarshish. The ships of Tarshish were carriers of your (Tyre's) merchandise. 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. The end of the known world in his day was beyond the Pillars of Hercules which stand on either side of the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic which was described as the ocean. The fare (cakhar) paid by him as a passenger, the hold of the ship in which he stowed himself away (cephinah), the crew (mallachim) the captain or shipmaster (rabh ha-chobhel), the storm, the angry sea, the terrified mariners and their cry to their gods, and the casting of Jonah overboard to appease the raging waters-all make a lifelike picture.It was in the time of Simon, the last survivor of the Maccabean brothers, that Joppa became a seaport with a harbor for shipping-"Amid all his glory he took Joppa for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea" (1 Maccabees 14:5). The island of Sardinia was always known as a hub of the metals trade in antiquity, and was also called by the ancient Greeks as Argyrphleps nsos "island of the silver veins". nine Ezekiel 38:13 places Tarshish in the epic event. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. "Copper, tin, silver, and iron: The search for metallic ores as an incentive for foreign expansion". Put and Libya are located in northern Africa. The Rio Tinto mine just north of Huelva was first worked by the Phoenicians and still produces copper. The record states: Coincidentally, there is a town named Tharsis 50 kilometres north of Huelva; the th combination, however, is a linguistic curiosity and alien to the Spanish language. 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. The names Tyre and Sidon were famous in the ancient Near East. Jonah 1:1-3 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. They are also associatedwith Sheba and Dedan whosedescendants populated theArabian Peninsula. 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