The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in wood, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to execute every design which shall be given to him, with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dan, the city, as the widow as of the tribe of Nephthali. (Du Hamel)
Whose. Hebrew, "and his father "(Haydock) or "this Abi. "(Calmet) See 3 Kings vii. 14.
Silk. Hebrew, "byssus "which is the silk extracted from a fish, and not the fine linen of Egypt, or cotton which as sometimes this appellation, 1 Paralipomenon xv. 27.
My lord, a term of civility.