2 Chronicles 2:11-18

Huram to Assist

11 Then Huram, king of Tyre, answered in a letter sent to Solomon: "¹Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them."

12 Then Huram continued, "Blessed be ²the LORD, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, ³who will build a house for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.

13 "Now I am sending Huram-abi *, a skilled man, endowed with understanding,

14 ⁴the son of a Danite * woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father.

15 "Now then, let my lord send to his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of ⁵which he has spoken.

16 "⁶We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem."

17 Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, ⁷following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 * * * * * were found.

18 ⁸He appointed 70,000 * of them to carry loads and 80,000 * to quarry stones in the mountains and 3,600 * * supervisors to make the people work.

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2 Chronicles 2:11-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 2

Solomon intending to build a temple for God, and a palace for himself, sent to Hiram, king of Tyre, to furnish him with materials and workmen, 2Ch 2:1-10, to which Hiram returned an agreeable answer, 2Ch 2:11-16, and for this service Solomon numbered all the strangers in Israel, 2Ch 2:17,18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

1. 1 Kings 10:9; 2 Chronicles 9:8
2. Psalms 33:6; Psalms 102:25
3. 2 Chronicles 2:1
4. 1 Kings 7:14
5. 2 Chronicles 2:10
6. 1 Kings 5:8, 9
7. 1 Chronicles 22:2
8. 2 Chronicles 2:2

Footnotes 11

[a]. Lit "said...and he sent"
[b]. Lit "said"
[c]. Lit "knowing discretion"
[d]. Lit "house for his royalty"
[e]. Lit "knowing understanding"
[f]. Lit "a woman of the daughters of Dan"
[g]. Lit "whose father is a Tyrian man"
[h]. Lit "devise any device"
[i]. Lit "skilled men"
[j]. Lit "numbering"
[k]. Lit "numbered of them"