2 Chronicles 2:14
12 And Hiram added: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son with insight and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
13 So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a skillful man endowed with creativity.
He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.
15 Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised.
16 We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device, that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
- ASV
- 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 devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed unto him with thy skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David thy father.
- DARBY
- the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and whose father was a man of Tyre, experienced in working in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in byssus, and in crimson, and for doing any manner of engraving, and for inventing every device which shall be put to him, besides thy skilful men, and the skilful men of my lord David thy father.
- BLB
- son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre, skilled to work in the gold, and in the silver, in the bronze, in the iron, in the stones, and in the wood, in purple, [and] in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, and to engrave any engraving, and to accomplish any device that may be given to him with your wise ones, and with wise ones of my lord David your father.
- ÅB
- Han er sønn til en kvinne av Dans døtre, men hans far er en mann fra Tyrus; han forstår seg på å arbeide i gull og sølv, kobber, jern, stein og tre og i purpurrød og blå ull og i hvit bomull og i karmosinrød ull og på å skjære ut alle slags bilder og uttenke alle slags kunstverker som han får til oppgave å utføre, sammen med dine kyndige menn og min herres, din far Davids kyndige menn.
- OTB
- sønn av en danittisk kvinne og en tyrisk far,
som vet hvordan man arbeider i gull, sølv, bronse, jern, stein og tre,
og i purpur, fiolett, lin og karmosinrødt stoff,
og som vet hvordan man graverer alle slags graveringer,
og å utføre ethvert design som blir tildelt ham,
for å arbeide med dine dyktige arbeidere og med dem av min herre David din far. - B1930
- Han er sønn til en kvinne av Dans døtre, men hans far er en mann fra Tyrus; han forstår sig på å arbeide i gull og sølv, kobber, jern, sten og tre og i purpurrød og blå ull og i hvit bomull og i karmosinrød ull og på å skjære ut alle slags billeder og uttenke alle slags kunstverker som han får til opgave å utføre, sammen med dine kyndige menn og min herres, din far Davids kyndige menn.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 2:7
Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
Read in contextExodus 31:3–4
And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability, and knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship,
Read in context1 Kings 7:13–14
Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.
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