The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
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Gill's Exposition
And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shall need,.... Both cedar and fir, Kg1 5:8,
and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; a port in the Mediterranean sea, the same…
Barnes' Notes
To find out every device - Compare Exo 31:4. The “devices” intended are plans or designs connected with art, which Huram could invent on any subject that was “put to him.”
Here we have, I. The return which Huram made to Solomon's embassy, in which he shows a great respect for Solomon and a readiness to serve him. Meaner people may learn of these great ones to be…
Cambridge Bible
of Dan in 1Ki 7:14, of Naphtali. The reading of Chron. may have arisen from Exo 31:6 (Oholiab one of the artificers of the tabernaclewas of the tribe of Dan).
to find out every device which shall be…