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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 2:7 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
2Ch 2:7 |
Strong Concordance |
Send [07971] me now therefore a man [0376] cunning [02450] to work [06213] in gold [02091], and in silver [03701], and in brass [05178], and in iron [01270], and in purple [0710], and crimson [03758], and blue [08504], and that can skill [03045] to grave [06605] [06603] with the cunning men [02450] that are with me in Judah [03063] and in Jerusalem [03389], whom David [01732] my father [01] did provide [03559]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work--Masons and carpenters were not asked for. Those whom David had obtained (Ch1 14:1) were probably still remaining in Jerusalem, and had instructed others. But he required a master of works; a person capable, like Bezaleel (Exo 35:31), of superintending and directing every department; for, as the division of labor was at that time little known or observed, an overseer had to be possessed of very versatile talents and experience. The things specified, in which he was to be skilled, relate not to the building, but the furniture of the temple. Iron, which could not be obtained in the wilderness when the tabernacle was built, was now, through intercourse with the coast, plentiful and much used. The cloths intended for curtains were, from the crimson or scarlet-red and hyacinth colors named, evidently those stuffs, for the manufacture and 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. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
See Kg1 5:6, note; Kg1 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.). 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 karmı̂̂yl, 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 κόκκος kokkos, and to the Romans as coccum, is obtained from an insect. Whether the "scarlet" שׁני shânı̂y of Exodus (Exo 25:4, etc.) is the same or a different red, cannot be certainly determined. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
31 And he hath filled [04390] him with the spirit [07307] of God [0430], in wisdom [02451], in understanding [08394], and in knowledge [01847], and in all manner of workmanship [04399];
1 Now Hiram [02438] [02361] king [04428] of Tyre [06865] sent [07971] messengers [04397] to David [01732], and timber [06086] of cedars [0730], with masons [07023] and carpenters [02796], to build [01129] him an house [01004].
4 And blue [08504], and purple [0713], and scarlet [08438] [08144], and fine linen [08336], and goats [05795]' hair,
1 Moreover thou shalt make [06213] the tabernacle [04908] with ten [06235] curtains [03407] of fine twined [07806] linen [08336], and blue [08504], and purple [0713], and scarlet [08144] [08438]: with cherubims [03742] of cunning [02803] work [04639] shalt thou make [06213] them.
4 And blue [08504], and purple [0713], and scarlet [08438] [08144], and fine linen [08336], and goats [05795]' hair,
13 And king [04428] Solomon [08010] sent [07971] and fetched [03947] Hiram [02438] out of Tyre [06865].
6 Now therefore command [06680] thou that they hew [03772] me cedar trees [0730] out of Lebanon [03844]; and my servants [05650] shall be with thy servants [05650]: and unto thee will I give [05414] hire [07939] for thy servants [05650] according to all that thou shalt appoint [0559]: for thou knowest [03045] that there is not among us any [0376] that can skill [03045] to hew [03772] timber [06086] like unto the Sidonians [06722].