Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
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Gill's Exposition
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon,.... Of the two first of these, and which Hiram sent, see Kg1 5:10. The algum trees are the same with the almug trees, Kg1 10:11 by…
Barnes' Notes
See 1Ki 5:6, note; 1Ki 7:13, note. Purple ... - “Purple, crimson, and blue,” would be needed for the hangings of the temple, which, in this respect, as in others, was conformed to the pattern of the…
Adam Clarke
Send me - a man cunning to work - A person of great ingenuity, who is capable of planning and directing, and who may be over the other artists.
Solomon's wisdom was given him, not merely for speculation, to entertain himself (though it is indeed a princely entertainment), nor merely for conversation, to entertain his friends, but for action;…
Cambridge Bible
can skill to grave Literally, knoweth how to grave.
to grave with the cunningmen] R.V. to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the cunning men. To graveis "to carve." Cp. 1Ki 6:29.
my father did…
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