Hiram I

Phoenician king

Tarshish (; ; ) occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings, most frequently as a place (probably a large city or region) far across the sea from Phoenicia and the Land of Israel. Tarshish was said to have exported vast quantities of important metals to Phoenicia and Israel. The same place name occurs in the Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian emperor Esarhaddon (died 669 BC) and also on the Phoenician inscription of the Nora Stone (around 800 BCE) in Sardinia; its precise location was never commonly known, and was eventually lost in antiquity. Legends grew up around

painting by Giorgione

central character of a Masonic allegory

2010 card game

Sarcophagus of Phoenician king

thumb|right|300px|Pharaoh's Island in the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba

Archaeological site in Israel

Second Book of Chronicles, chapter 2

Second Book of Chronicles, chapter 8

1 Kings, chapter 9

second Book of Samuel chapter

1 Kings, chapter 5