Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 6. In the hearts of all that are wisehearted I have put wisdom] So every man that had a natural genius, as we term it, had an increase of wisdom by immediate inspiration from God, so that he knew how to execute the different works which Divine wisdom designed for the tabernacle and its furniture. Dark as were the heathens, yet they acknowledged that all talents, and the seeds of all arts, came from God.
Hence Seneca: Insita nobis omnium artium semina, magisterque ex occulto Deus producit ingenia. In the same way Homer attributes such curious arts to Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, and Vulcan, the god of handicrafts.
wv dÆ ote tiv cruson periceuetaiargurw anhr idriv, on `hfaistov dedaen kai pallav aqhnh tecnhn pantoihn, carienta de erga teleiei.Odyss., 1. vi., ver. 232.
As by some artist, to whom VULCAN gives His skill divine, a breathing statue lives; By PALLAS taught, he frames the wondrous mould, And o'er the silver pours the fusile gold.- POPE.
And all this the wisest of men long before them declared; when speaking of the wisdom of God he says, I, Wisdom, dwell with Prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions; Proverbs viii. 12. See the note on "chap. xxviii. 3", to which the reader is particularly desired to refer. There is something remarkable in the name of this second superintendent, baylha Aholiab, the tabernacle of the father, or, the father is my tabernacle; a name nearly similar in its meaning to that of Bezaleel, see the note on "ver. 2".
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - The Israelites, who had been masons and bricklayers in Egypt, were no qualified for curious workmanship; but the Spirit who gave the apostle utterance in divers tongues, miraculously gave Bezaleel and Aholiab the skill that was wanting. The honour which comes from God, is alway attended with a work to be done; to be employed for God is high honour Those whom God calls to any service, he will find or make fit for it The Lord gives different gifts to different persons; let each mind his proper work, diligently remembering that whatever wisdom any on possesses, the Lord put it in the heart, to do his commandments.
Original Hebrew ואני589 הנה2009 נתתי5414 אתו854 את853 אהליאב171 בן1121 אחיסמך294 למטה4294 דן1835 ובלב3820 כל3605 חכם2450 לב3820 נתתי5414 חכמה2451 ועשׂו6213 את853 כל3605 אשׁר834 צויתך׃6680
