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2Ch_2:14 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 brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Ver. 14. The son of a woman.] See on 1Ki_7:14.
Skilful to work in gold, &c.] Some men are good at anything; as Hippias, called Omniseius by Apuleius. {a} He was not only a general scholar, but made with his own hands he ring he wore, the clothes he had on, the shoes on his feet, &c., as Cicero {b} tells us.
{a} Apulei. Florid.
{b} De Orator, lib. iii.