2 Chronicles 2:7

_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._ Send me now therefore a man cunning to work. Masons and carpenters were not asked for: those whom David had obtained (1 Chronicles 14:1) were probably still remaining in Jerusalem, and had instructed others: but he required a master of works-a person capable, like Bezaleel (Exodus 35:31), of superintending and directing every department; because, as the division of labour was at that time little known or observed, an overseer had to be possessed of very versatile talents and experience. THAT CAN SKILL TO GRAVE

Verse 2 Chronicles 2:7. _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....

See 1 Kings 5:6, note; 1 Kings 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 tabernacle (see Exodus 25:4; Exodus 26:1, etc.). Hiram’s power of “working in purple, crimson,” etc., was probably a knowledge of the best modes of dyeing cloth these colors. The Phoenicians, off whose coast the murex was commonly taken, were famous as purple dyers from a very remote period. CRIMSON - כרמיל...

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;...

SEND NOW THEREFORE A MAN CUNNING TO WORK IN GOLD, AND IN SILVER, AND IN BRASS, AND IN IRON,.... There being many things relating to the temple about to be built, and vessels to be put into it, which were to be made of those metals: AND IN PURPLE, AND CRIMSON, AND BLUE; used in making the vails for it, hung up in different places: AND THAT CAN SKILL TO GRAVE; in wood or stone: WITH THE CUNNING MEN THAT ARE WITH ME IN JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, WHOM MY FATHER DAVID DID PROVIDE; see 1 Chronicles 22:15....

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....

CUNNING. clever, or skilful. See note on 1 Chronicles 22:15; 1 Chronicles 25:7, and Exodus 26:1. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ CAN SKILL. know how....

_can skill to grave_ Literally, _knoweth how to grave_. _to grave with the cunning_men] R.V. TO GRAVE ALL MANNER OF GRAVINGS, TO BE WITH THE CUNNING MEN. _To grave_is "to carve." Cp. 1 Kings 6:29. _my father did provide_ See 1 Chronicles 22:15....

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