Hiram (1Ki 7:13)
A person of the united monarchy of Israel, first named at 1 Kings 7:13.
Where in scripture
1 Kings2 ChroniclesKing Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
1 Kings 7:13
Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:
1 Kings 7:40
the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished brass.
1 Kings 7:45
Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,
2 Chronicles 2:13
Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house:
2 Chronicles 4:11
Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright brass.
2 Chronicles 4:16
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
In their own words — 1 recorded saying
“Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them. And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king. And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father, The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and…” — 2 Chronicles 2:11-16
Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).
