April 10, 2021: Day 35 – II Chronicles 2

Solomon begins his work in building the temple.  The first step he takes is to reach out to an ally who had helped his father earlier in building David’s house.  King Huram of Tyre is asked for skilled craftsmen with wood.  He gathers them and then that expands until he finds himself a thousands of people who are put in the right place at the right time in order to build the temple.  This is going to be a community affair.  

Do you notice who plays a leading role in the blue collar work of the temple?  Those who were foreigners in the land.  Solomon puts 70,000 of them to work on the temple.  He doesn’t shun them or evict them from the country but rather he uses them in order to build an even more impressive residence for his God.  

Did you notice the long list of skills that Huram-abi had?  He was very good at working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, wood, all types of different fabrics.  Now that is a renaissance man if you ever saw one!