Distant trading place named in poetry, prophecy, and Jonah.
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Far-off port at the western edge of the Mediterranean, conventionally associated with the western Phoenician trade and often connected with Spain. and Jehoshaphat dispatch ships of Tarshish that bring back gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks, and the prophets repeatedly invoke its merchants and ships as symbols of distant wealth subject to Yahweh's judgment. flees toward Tarshish in the opposite direction from , making the place a byword for trying to escape the call of God.
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