Places
Tarshish in 2 Chronicles 9
TAR-shish
This place shows up in 2 Chronicles 9:21: “For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold,…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
2 Chronicles 9:21
“For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.”
What kids can learn
When you hear tarshish in 2 Chronicles, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read 2 Chronicles 9:21 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice 2 Chronicles 9:21
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
ForthekinghadshipsthatwenttoTarshishwithservants.Onceeverythreeyears,theshipsofTarshishcamebringinggold,ivory,apes,and