Exo 31:3, 6, 35:31, 1Ki 3:12, 7:14, 2Ch 2:14, Isa 28:26 | TSK | STEP | filled. the spirit of God.{Ruach Elohim,} rather, "a spirit of God;" which is a usual Hebraism, signifying "an excellent spirit;" or, as we should now say, "a distinguished genius for the work he had to perform." No man, by course of reading or study, ever acquired a genius of any kind: we call it natural, and say it was born with the man: Moses teaches us to consider it divine. The prophet Isaiah, (ch. 28:24-29,) pointedly refers to this sort of teaching as coming from God, even in the most common and less difficult arts of life. Dark as the heathens were, yet they acknowledged that all talents and the seeds of all arts came from God.

Exodus 31:3

filled.

35:31; 1Ki 3:9; 7:14; Isa 28:6,26; 1Co 12:4-11

the spirit of God.{Ruach Elohim,} rather, "a spirit of God;" which is a usual Hebraism, signifying "an excellent spirit;" or, as we should now say, "a distinguished genius for the work he had to perform." No man, by course of reading or study, ever acquired a genius of any kind: we call it natural, and say it was born with the man: Moses teaches us to consider it divine. The prophet Isaiah, (ch. 28:24-29,) pointedly refers to this sort of teaching as coming from God, even in the most common and less difficult arts of life. Dark as the heathens were, yet they acknowledged that all talents and the seeds of all arts came from God.

Exodus 31:6

I have given.

4:14,15; 6:26; Ezr 5:1,2; Ec 4:9-12; Mt 10:2-4; Lu 10:1; Ac 13:2

Ac 15:39,40

Aholiab.

35:34; 36:1

wise hearted.

28:3; 35:10,25,26,35; 36:1,8; 1Ki 3:12; Pr 2:6,7; Jas 1:5,16,17

that they.

37:1-38:31; Nu 4:1-49; 1Ki 6:1-8:66; 2Ch 3:1-4:22; Eze 43:1-48:35

Exodus 35:31

And he.

Isa 11:2-5; 28:26; 61:1-3; 1Co 12:4-10; Col 2:3; Jas 1:17

wisdom.{Chochmah,} (from {chacham,} to be wise, skilful, prudent,) wisdom, denoting the compass of mind and strength of capacity necessary to form a wise man; hence our word wisdom is the power of judging what is wise, or best to be done; from the Saxon {wisedom,} the doom or judgment of the well taught, wise, or prudent man, from {wisan,} to teach, advise, and {deman,} to judge.

understanding.{Tevoonah,} (from {boon,} to separate, distinguish, discern,) understanding, discernment, capacity to comprehend the different parts of a work, how to connect, arrange, etc., in order to make a complete whole.

knowledge.{Daâth,} (from {yadâ,} to know, be acquainted with,) knowledge, or a particular acquaintance with a person or thing, practical, experimental knowledge.

1 Kings 3:12

I have done.

Ps 10:17; Isa 65:24; Ro 8:26,27; 1Jo 5:14,15

I have given.

28; 2:6,9; 4:29-34; 5:12; 10:3-8,23,24; 2Ch 1:11,12; 2:12; 9:5-8

Ec 1:13,16; Lu 21:15

neither.

Mt 12:42; Col 2:3

1 Kings 7:14

a widow's son. Heb. the son of a widow woman. tribe.The mother of Hiram (not the Tyrian king mentioned before, but an intelligent coppersmith, of Jewish extraction by his mother's side) in Chronicles, is said to have been of "the daughters of Dan;" and she might have been of Naphtali by her father, and of Dan by her mother; or she might originally be of the tribe of Dan, and have been first married to a man of the tribe of Naphtali; and, in either case, she might be indifferently called "of the tribe of Naphtali," or of "the daughters of Dan."

Naphtali.

2Ch 2:14

his father.

2Ch 4:16

he was filled.

Ex 31:2-6; 35:30-35; 36:1,2,8; Isa 28:26

2 Chronicles 2:14

The son.

1Ki 7:13,14

skilful.

7; Ex 31:3,4

Isaiah 28:26

For his God, etc. or, And he bindeth it in such sort as hisGod doth teach him.

Ex 28:3; 31:3-6; 36:2; Job 35:11; 39:17; Ps 144:1; Da 1:17; Jas 1:17