And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
1 Kings 7:13 belongs to the history of Solomon's reign and the building of the temple, standing in chronological order as part of the history of the undivided kingdom under Solomon told in 1 Kings 1 to 11 and paralleled in 2 Chronicles 1 to 9. The building and furniture of the temple here is to be noted together with the dedication prayer and sacrifices and the divine answer to Solomon's prayer. Within that account the verse belongs to the latter part of the chapter that gives details concerning the furnishings and vessels of the temple, coming after the description of Solomon's own house which he built after he had finished the house of Jehovah.
The verse introduces the skilled workmen supplied by King Hiram to help with the temple's construction. The temple took seven years and six months to build and was magnificent, enlarging the tabernacle's plan as a larger, permanent building with two holy places, sacred vessels of the same kinds increased in size and number, and the same ministry. The temple's two holy places served as a pattern of the heavenly temple.
God gave special wisdom to the builders of the temple just as He did to the men who constructed the tabernacle in the wilderness, proving that the power of invention is God-given. The order of building God's house before Solomon's own house teaches that God is to be put first and not self. The order of building Solomon's own house after God's house shows that many make self first.
1 Kings 7:13 belongs to the history of Solomon's reign and the building of the temple, standing in chronological order as part of the history of the undivided kingdom under Solomon told in 1 Kings 1 to 11 and paralleled in 2 Chronicles 1 to 9. The building and furniture of the temple here is to be noted together with the dedication prayer and sacrifices and the divine answer to Solomon's prayer. Within that account the verse belongs to the latter part of the chapter that gives details concerning the furnishings and vessels of the temple, coming after the description of Solomon's own house which he built after he had finished the house of Jehovah.
The verse introduces the skilled workmen supplied by King Hiram to help with the temple's construction. The temple took seven years and six months to build and was magnificent, enlarging the tabernacle's plan as a larger, permanent building with two holy places, sacred vessels of the same kinds increased in size and number, and the same ministry. The temple's two holy places served as a pattern of the heavenly temple.
God gave special wisdom to the builders of the temple just as He did to the men who constructed the tabernacle in the wilderness, proving that the power of invention is God-given. The order of building God's house before Solomon's own house teaches that God is to be put first and not self. The order of building Solomon's own house after God's house shows that many make self first.