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Gill's Exposition
He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali,.... In Ch2 2:14, his mother is said to be of the daughters of Dan, as she might be, and yet her son of the tribe of Naphtali; for either she was of the…
Barnes' Notes
Hiram - A man who bore the same name as the king of Tyre, a master workman, known as Hiram Ab, i. e. Master Hiram 2Ch 2:13; 2Ch 4:16.
Adam Clarke
Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre - This was not the Tyrian king, mentioned before, but a very intelligent coppersmith, of Jewish extraction by his mother's side, who was probably married to…
We have here an account of the brass-work about the temple. There was no iron about the temple, though we find David preparing for the temple iron for things of iron, Ch1 29:2. What those things were…
Hiram a Tyrian worker in brass casts the pillars Jachin and Boaz (2Ch 2:4; 2Ch 3:15-17)
13. sent and fet -Fet" is the old English past tense of the verb -fetch," and occurs several times in the…