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2 Chronicles 2:13

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So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a skillful man endowed with creativity.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And now I have sent a skilful man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

KJV

And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 2

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Of Huram my father’s - A wrong translation. Huram here is the workman sent by the king of Tyre and not the king of Tyre’s father (see 1Ki 5:1 note). The words in the original are Huram Abi, and the latter word is now commonly thought to be either a proper name or an epithet of honor, e. g., my master-workman.

This site's exposition

a cunning man, endued with understanding

on 2 Chronicles 2:13-16

Huram sends a craftsman called Huram my father's, an honorific title rather than kinship, whose mother is of the daughters of Dan and whose father was a man of Tyre. The pairing recalls Bezaleel of Judah given the tabernacle's chief gift and Aholiab of Dan set beside him at Exodus 31:6, so that a craftsman of Dan's line again stands at the side of Judah's king for the greater house. Kings names the same man's mother of the tribe of Naphtali, a variance the commentators read as a mother married into Naphtali from a Danite family, and neither text is set aside for the other. The letter closes with the wheat, barley, oil and wine confirmed and the timber promised by raft to Joppa, some forty miles short of Jerusalem by land.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This is an ordinance for ever to Israel. 5 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods. 6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

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And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

I have sent a cunning man - His name appears to have been Hiram, or Hiram Abi: see the notes on 1Ki 7:13, 1Ki 7:14.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

endowed with understanding, of my father Huram He was my father’s ingenious craftsman, and he is also mine.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 2:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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. 6 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

8 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.

  • וְעַתָּ֗הand now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • שָׁלַ֧חְתִּיI send

    shalachtiH7971 →845 times

  • אִישׁ־a man

    ʾish-H376 →1663 times

  • חָכָ֛םwise

    chakhamH2450 →138 times

  • יוֹדֵ֥עַ[who] knows

    yodea'H3045 →945 times

  • בִּינָ֖הunderstanding

    binahH998 →

  • לְחוּרָ֥ם<to> Huram

    lechuramH2361 →13 times

  • אָבִֽי׃Abi

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    2 Chronicles 4:16

    and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.

    it leads to

    • 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:

    • 1 Kings 7:13–14

      Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.

    • 1 Chronicles 28:17

      the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;

    • Zechariah 14:20–21

      On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the…

    • Exodus 27:3

      Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, 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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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