2 Chronicles 2:14

_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

TO FIND OUT EVERY DEVICE - Compare Exodus 31:4. The “devices” intended are plans or designs connected with art, which Huram could invent on any subject that was “put to him.”...

EXPOSITION 2 CHRONICLES 2:1 In the Hebrew text this verse stands as the last of 2 Chronicles 1:1. DETERMINED. The Hebrew word is the ordinary word for "said;" as, _e.g; _in the expression of such frequent occurrence, "The Lord said." Its natural equivalent here might be, he _gave the word, _or _issued the command, _for the building of a house. FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD; better, to _the Name of the Lord _(1 Kings 5:3; or in Hebrew text, 1 Kings 5:18;...

THE SON OF A WOMAN OF THE DAUGHTERS OF DAN,.... Here follows an account of the descent of the artificer, and of his skill in working; of what seeming disagreement there may be in this account, with that in 1 Kings 7:14, 1 Kings 7:14....

2. THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE The Beginning and Appeal to Huram CHAPTER 2 _ 1. Solomon's purpose (2 Chronicles 2:1)_ 2. The workmen (2 Chronicles 2:2) 3. The message to Huram, King of Tyre (2 Chronicles 2:3) 4. Huram's answer (2 Chronicles 2:11) 5. Solomon numbers the strangers (2 Chronicles 2:17) In 1 Kings 5, Solomon purposed to begin the great work to which he had been called,

PREPARATIONS FOR THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (see notes on 1 Kings 5:5). Though the general narrative in the parallel passages is the same, the Chronicler's account varies in detail sufficiently from that in 1 K. to suggest the probability that the Chronicler used a different source. 2 Chronicles 2:14. of the daughters of Dan: in 1 Kings 7:14 of the tribe of Naphthali; a number of other variations of this kind bears out what has just been said as to the Chronicler's source....

A WOMAN... OF DAN. By birth. In 1 Kings 7:14,. widow... of Naphtali. By marriage. No discrepancy, as alleged....

_of Dan_ in 1 Kings 7:14, _of Naphtali_. The reading of Chron. may have arisen from Exodus 31:6 (Oholiab one of the artificers of the _tabernacle_was of the tribe _of Dan_). _to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning_men] R.V. TO DEVISE ANY DEVICE: THAT THERE MAY BE A PLACE APPOINTED UNTO HIM WITH THY CUNNING MEN....

2. PREPARATIONS FOR THE TEMPLE (Chapter 2) TEXT 2 Chronicles 2:1. Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom. 2. And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them. 3. And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with me. 4. Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings mornirig and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel. 5. And the ho

2:14 Dan, (i-10) * In 1 Kings 7:14 Hiram is said to be of the tribe of Naphtali, but here of Dan, probably due to the fact that Naphtali belonged to the camp of Dan. Numbers 2:25-31 ....