“And Hiram sent in the nauie his seruants, shipmen that had knowledge of the Sea, with the seruants of Solomon.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
9:27 Knowledge of the sea - For which the Tyrians were famous.He sent also ships to join with Solomon's, not from Tyre, the cityof Phoenicia; but from an island in the Red - sea, called Tyre,because it was a colony of the Tyrians, as Strabo notes.