Maritime Trade and Wealth

2 Chronicles 8:17-18

Then went Salomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth by the sea side in the lande of Edom.

And Huram sent him by the handes of his seruants, shippes, and seruants that had knowledge of the sea: and they went with the seruants of Salomon to Ophir, and brought thence foure hundreth and fiftie talents of golde, and brought them to King Salomon.