Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 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.
7. 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. 1Ki 6:29.
my father did provide ] See 1Ch 22:15.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
See 1Ki 5:6, note; 1Ki 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 Exo 25:4; Exo 26:1, etc.). Hirams 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 – karmyl, the word here and elsewhere translated crimson, is unique to Chronicles and probably of Persian origin. The famous red dye of Persia and India, the dye known to the Greeks as kokkos, and to the Romans as coccum, is obtained from an insect. Whether the scarlet shany of Exodus (Exo 25:4, etc.) is the same or a different red, cannot be certainly determined.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
2Ch 2:7-16
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold.
Huram and Solomon
Learn from this intercourse–
I. That friendship in life is helpful.
II. That co-operation among men is desirable.
III. That men may know God, yet not serve him.
IV. That when Gods people are consistent in their life, their influence upon others is for good. (J. Wolfendale.)
Co-operation
No temple should be built by any one man. Blessed be God, everything that is worth doing is done by co-operation, by acknowledged reciprocity of labour. Your breakfast-table was not spread by yourself, although it could not have been spread without you. Sometimes we may almost bless God that we cannot identify the authorship of some books in the Bible. It is better that many hands should have written the book than that some brilliant author should have retired into immortality on the ground of his being the only genius that could have written so marvellous a volume. (J. Parker, D.D.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
7. Send me now therefore a mancunning to workMasons and carpenters were not asked for. Thosewhom David had obtained (1Ch 14:1)were probably still remaining in Jerusalem, and had instructedothers. But he required a master of works; a person capable, likeBezaleel (Ex 35:31), ofsuperintending and directing every department; for, as the divisionof labor was at that time little known or observed, an overseer hadto be possessed of very versatile talents and experience. The thingsspecified, in which he was to be skilled, relate not to the building,but the furniture of the temple. Iron, which could not be obtained inthe wilderness when the tabernacle was built, was now, throughintercourse with the coast, plentiful and much used. The clothsintended for curtains were, from the crimson or scarlet-red andhyacinth colors named, evidently those stuffs, for the manufactureand dyeing of which the Tyrians were so famous. “The graving,”probably, included embroidery of figures like cherubim in needlework,as well as wood carving of pomegranates and other ornaments.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 1Ch 22:15.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(7) Send me now . . .And now send me a wise man, to work in the gold and in the silver (1Ch. 22:15; 2Ch. 2:13).
And in (the) purple, and crimson, and blue.No allusion is made to this kind of art in 2Ch. 4:11-16, nor in 1Ki. 7:13 seq., which describe only metallurgic works of this master, whose versatile genius might easily be paralleled by famous names of the Renaissance.
Purple (argwn).Aramaic form. (Heb. argmn, Exo. 25:4.)
Crimson (karml).A word of Persian origin, occurring only here and in 2Ch. 2:13, and 2Ch. 3:14. (Comp. our word carmine.)
Blue (tkleth).Dark blue, or violet (Exo. 25:4, and elsewhere.)
Can skill.Knoweth how.
To grave.Literally, to carve carvings; whether in wood or stone. (1Ki. 6:29; Zec. 3:9; Exo. 28:9, on gems.)
With the cunning men.The Hebrew connects this clause with the infinitive to work at the beginning of the verse. There should be a stop after the words to grave.
Whom David my father did provide (prepared, 1Ch. 29:2).1Ch. 22:15; 1Ch. 28:21.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7. Send me a man cunning to work in gold A skilled artificer; a master workman. Here we have the specific request for such a workman, which is implied, but not explicitly stated, in Kings.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ch 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.
Ver. 7. Send me now therefore a man. ] See 1Ki 7:13-14 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
cunning = clever, or skilful. See note on 1Ch 22:15; 1Ch 25:7, and Exo 26:1.
and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton.
can skill = know how.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
cunning: Exo 31:3-5, 1Ki 7:14, Isa 28:26, Isa 28:29, Isa 60:10
to grave: Heb. to grave gravings
whom David: 1Ch 22:15, 1Ch 22:16
Reciprocal: Gen 4:22 – brass Exo 26:31 – cunning work Exo 28:9 – grave Exo 31:4 – General 2Ch 2:14 – skilful 2Ch 26:15 – cunning men Isa 23:18 – her merchandise
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 2:7. Send me therefore a man cunning to work in gold, &c. There were admirable artists, in all the works here referred to, at Tyre; some of whom Solomon desired to be sent to him, that they might assist those whom David had provided, but who were not so skilful as those of Tyre.