1 Kings 7:13

The NET Bible®

King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
King Solomon had Hiram brought from Tyre.

Hebrew Names Version
King Shlomo sent and fetched Hiram out of Tzor.

King James Version
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

English Standard Version
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

New Century Version
King Solomon sent to Tyre and had Huram brought to him.

Amplified Bible
Now King Solomon sent word and brought Hiram [a skilled craftsman] from Tyre.

New American Standard Bible
Now King Solomon sent word and had Hiram brought from Tyre.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then King Salomon sent, and set one Hiram out of Tyrus.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

Contemporary English Version
Hiram was a skilled bronze worker from the city of Tyre. His father was now dead, but he also had been a bronze worker from Tyre, and his mother was from the tribe of Naphtali. King Solomon asked Hiram to come to Jerusalem and make the bronze furnishings to use for worship in the Lord 's temple, and he agreed to do it.

Complete Jewish Bible
King Shlomo sent for Hiram and brought him from Tzor.

Darby Translation
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon sent for a man named Huram who lived in Tyre and brought him to Jerusalem.

George Lamsa Translation
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

Good News Translation
King Solomon sent for a man named Huram, a craftsman living in the city of Tyre, who was skilled in bronze work.

Lexham English Bible
King Solomon invited and received Hiram from Tyre.

Literal Translation
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And kynge Salomon sent to fetch one Hiram of Tyre

American Standard Version
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

Bible in Basic English
Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And king Solomon sent and fet one Hiram out of Tyre,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

King James Version (1611)
And king Solomon sent and fet Hiram out of Tyre.

English Revised Version
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

Berean Standard Bible
Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also kyng Salomon sente, and brouyte fro Tire Hiram, the sone of a womman widewe,

Young's Literal Translation
And king Solomon sendeth and taketh Hiram out of Tyre --

Update Bible Version
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

Webster's Bible Translation
And king Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.

World English Bible
King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

New King James Version
Now King Solomon sent and brought Huram 2 Chronicles 2:13, 14)">[fn] from Tyre.

New Living Translation
King Solomon then asked for a man named Huram to come from Tyre.

New Life Bible
Now King Solomon brought Hiram from Tyre.

New Revised Standard
Now King Solomon invited and received Hiram from Tyre.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram, out of Tyre:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And king Solomon sent, and brought Hiram from Tyre,

Revised Standard Version
And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

THE MESSAGE
King Solomon sent to Tyre and asked Hiram (not the king; another Hiram) to come. Hiram's mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a Tyrian and a master worker in bronze. Hiram was a real artist—he could do anything with bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all the bronze work.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

Contextual Overview

¹³ King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre. ¹⁴ He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned. ¹⁵ He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference. ¹⁶ He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. ¹⁷ The latticework on the tops of the pillars was adorned with ornamental wreaths and chains; the top of each pillar had seven groupings of ornaments. ¹⁸ When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar. ¹⁹ The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high. ²⁰ On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around. ²¹ He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right side and called it Yakin; he erected the other pillar on the left side and called it Boaz. ²² The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of the pillars was completed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hiram: 1 Kings 7:40, 2 Chronicles 2:13, 2 Chronicles 4:11, Huram

Reciprocal: Exodus 35:30 - See 1 Kings 3:1 - the house 2 Chronicles 2:14 - The son 2 Chronicles 4:16 - Huram Acts 7:47 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:10
Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:18
but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 7:1
The Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

Genesis 7:2
You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:7
Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.

Genesis 7:9
male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Genesis 7:18
The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Genesis 7:19
The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. Not the king of Tyre, but an artificer in it, after described, whom Solomon had heard and upon his request Huram sent him to him, 2 Chronicles 2:13 his name is called Hyperon by Clemens of Alexandria l.

l Stromat. l. 1. p. 332.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hiram - A man who bore the same name as the king of Tyre, a master workman, known as Hiram Ab, i. e. Master Hiram 2Ch 2:13; 2 Chronicles 4:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 7:13. Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. — This was not the Tyrian king, mentioned before, but a very intelligent coppersmith, of Jewish extraction by his mother's side, who was probably married to a Tyrian. In 2 Chronicles 2:14, this woman is said to be of the daughters of Dan, but here of the tribe of Naphtali. The king of Tyre, who gives the account as we have it in Chronicles, might have made the mistake, and confounded the two tribes; or she might have been of Naphtali by her father, and of Dan by her mother, and so be indifferently called of the tribe of Naphtali or of the daughters of Dan. This appears to be the best solution of the difficulty. The versions and MSS. give no help here.