2 Chronicles / Question
Huram sent a man described as “Huram my father,” often called Huram-abi, whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He was skilled in working gold, silver, brass, iron, stone, timber, and in cloth and engraving (2 Chronicles 2:13-14).
In 2 Chronicles 2:13–14, the king of Tyre answers Solomon’s building request by sending a highly capable craftsman named Huram. He is described as intelligent and broadly trained, able to work with many materials and colors and to produce both detailed engraving and planned designs. This unit sits inside the correspondence between Solomon and the Tyrian king about resources and labor for constructing the temple and related projects. Just before these verses, the Tyrian king agrees to help and responds to Solomon’s stated needs for skilled people and specialty materials.
These verses present the temple project as requiring more than raw materials. It also requires expert human skill. The Tyrian king responds to Solomon by sending a named artisan, Huram, and the letter stresses his competence and breadth of training (explicit in the text’s list of materials and tasks). The description also highlights cross-border cooperation.
A common mistake is to treat this as trivia. Names, places, numbers, and sequence details often carry memory, covenant identity, or narrative movement in the biblical story.
Start with 2 Chronicles 2:13-14, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
13Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father`s,
14the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful 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 engrave any manner 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.