John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 7. Send now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron , etc.] 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 1 Chronicles 22:15).
Matthew Henry Commentary
- The building of the temple.
--There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in 1Ki 6. It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Ful instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enoug to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Le us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way ma be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God throug the Spirit _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew ועתה6258 שׁלח7971 לי אישׁ376 חכם2450 לעשׂות6213 בזהב2091 ובכסף3701 ובנחשׁת5178 ובברזל1270 ובארגון710 וכרמיל3758 ותכלת8504 וידע3045 לפתח6605 פתוחים6603 עם5973 החכמים2450 אשׁר834 עמי5973 ביהודה3063 ובירושׁלם3389 אשׁר834 הכין3559 דויד1732 אבי׃1
