From the Death of Ahab to the Captivity of the Ten Tribes - Flavius Josephus

Sanhedrim, out of the priests, the Levites, and the principal of the
people, both here and 2 Chronicles 19:8; much like the old Christian
judicatures of the bishop, the presbyters, the deacons, and the people.
2. Concerning this precious balsam, see the note on Atiq. B. VIII. ch. 6.
sect. 6.
3. What are here Pontus and Thrace, as the places whither Jehoshaphat's
fleet sailed, are in our other copies Ophir and Tarshish, and the place
whence it sailed is in them Eziongeber, which lay on the Red Sea,
whence it was impossible for any ships to sail to Pontus or Thrace; so
that Josephus's copy differed from our other copies, as is further plain
from his own words, which render what we read, that "the ships were
broken at Eziongeber, from their unwieldy greatness." But so far we
may conclude, that Josephus thought one Ophir to be some where in the
Mediterranean, and not in the South Sea, though perhaps there might be
another Ophir in that South Sea also, and that fleets might then sail both
from Phoenicia and from the Red Sea to fetch the gold of Ophir.
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