Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 1 Kings 7:14

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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: Ch2 2:14 his father: Ch2 4:16 he was filled: Exo 31:2-6, Exo 35:30-35, Exo 36:1, Exo 36:2, Exo 36:8; Isa 28:26 3 Kings (1 Kings) 7:15

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