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1 Kings 7:13

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Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.

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And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

KJV

And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

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This verse in 1 Kings 7

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 2.18.3 · Written before 735.

And this was done on account of the mystery. For the Tyrian craftsman whom Solomon employed to help in his work stands for the ministers of the word chosen from the Gentiles. The allusion to this man as a craftsman is a beautiful touch because …

This site's exposition

fetched Hiram out of Tyre

on 1 Kings 7:13-14

The master founder is a widow's son of Naphtali with a Tyrian father, and the text describes him as filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass, the same three-fold formula spoken over Bezalel at Ex 31:3. The temple's brass, like the tabernacle's, is made by a man Scripture describes in the vocabulary of the Spirit's gifting, and this Hiram of mixed parentage stands with the Tyrian king of the same name who sent the cedar. Craftsmanship sits inside the sanctuary story on purpose.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. Not the king of Tyre, but an artificer in it, after described, whom Solomon had heard and upon his request Huram sent him to him, 2Ch 2:13 his name is called Hyperon by Clemens of Alexandria (l). (l) Stromat. l. 1. p. 332.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Hiram - A man who bore the same name as the king of Tyre, a master workman, known as Hiram Ab, i. e. Master Hiram 2Ch 2:13; 2Ch 4:16.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre - This was not the Tyrian king, mentioned before, but a very intelligent coppersmith, of Jewish extraction by his mother’s side, who was probably married to a Tyrian. In 2Ch 2:14, this woman is said to be of the daughters of Dan, but here of the tribe of Naphtali. The king of Tyre, who gives the account as we have it in Chronicles, might have made the mistake, and confounded the two tribes; or she might have been of Naphtali by her father, and of Dan by her mother, and so be indifferently called of the tribe of Naphtali or of the daughters of Dan. This appears to be the best solution of the difficulty. The versions and MSS. give no help here.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Three rows of cut stones. The wall was made of three tiers of stone and a tier of wood on them.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Kings 7:12:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J
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A coppersmith. A craftsman. 18 I.e., an expert in his trade, in the works of copper. The Chirom mentioned here is not King Chirom mentioned earlier [above:15].
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Kings 7:14:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּשְׁלַח֙and he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971 →845 times

  • הַמֶּ֣לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֔הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • וַיִּקַּ֥חand he brought

    vaiyikachH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • חִירָ֖םHiram

    chiramH2438 →22 times

  • מִצֹּֽר׃from Tyre

    mitzorH6865 →42 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

7 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 7:40

    Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 4:11–16

      Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:

    • Jeremiah 52:18–19

      They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

    • 1 Kings 7:28

      This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,

    • Exodus 24:6

      Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.

    • Exodus 39:32–43

      So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 4:11

    Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:14

      He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind…

    • 1 Kings 7:40–51

      Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Alfred Edersheim, Bible History: Old Testament; Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 2.18.3; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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