Genesis 10:29
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Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
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They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
From the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jachin;
Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.