[¹] Or, even Huram my father See chapter iv. 16.
13. I have sent] According to 1 Kings vii. 13 Solomon himself sent and fetched Hiram the artificer.
of Huram my father’s] Render either literally as margin, even Huram my father, or better, even Huram my trusted counsellor. Huram the king calls Huram the artificer my father as a title of honour. Compare iv. 16.
¹⁴the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to devise any device: that there may be a place appointed unto him with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. ¹⁵Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
14. of Dan] in 1 Kings vii. 14, of Naphtali. The reading of Chronicles may have arisen from Exodus xxxi. 6 (Oholiab one of the artificers of the tabernacle was of the tribe of Dan).
¹⁶and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa[¹]; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
[¹] Hebrew Japho.
16. Joppa] Hebrew Japho, modern Jaffa (Yāfā).
17, 18 [16, 17, Hebrew] (compare verse 2 above).
Bearers and Hewers.
¹⁷And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.