the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre. He is skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device, that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Dan, the city, as the widow as of the tribe of Nephthali. D.—Whose. Hebrew “and his father,” ( Bible.) or “this Abi.” Calmet. See 3 Kennicott. 7:14.—Silk. Hebrew “byssus,” which is the silk extracted from a fish, and not the fine linen of Egypt, or cotton which as sometimes this appellation. 1 Chronicles 15:27.—My lord, a term of civility.