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History Of Masonry.
jo what port yoii please , where they may _ lie ready for your own men to transport them to Jerusalem . It would be a great obligation , after all this , to allow us such a provision of corn in exchange , as may stand with j'our convenience ; for that is the commodity we islanders want most . " Solomonto testify his great satisfaction from this answer of the
, Tyrian king , and in return for his generous offers , ordered him a yearly present of 20 , 000 measures of wheat , and zo , ooo measures of fine oil for his household ; besides a like quantity of barley , wheat , wine and oil , which he engaged to give Hiram ' s masons , who were to be employed in the intended work of the temple . Hiram was to send the cedars , fir , and other woods , upon floats to Joppa , to be
delivered to whom Solomon should direct , in order to be carried to Jerusalem . He sent him also a man of his own name , a Tyrian by birth , but of Israelitish descent , who was a second Bezaleel , and honoured by his king with the title of Father : in 2 Chron . ii . 13 . he is called Hiram Abbif , the most accomplished designer and operator upon earth * ; whose abilities were not confined to building only , but " extended to afi kinds of work , whether in gold , silver , brass , or iron ; whether in linen , tapestry , or embroidery ; whether considered as an
* In 2 Chron . ii . 13 . Hiram , King of Tyre ( called there Huram ) in his letter ¦ to King Solomon , says , I have sent a cunning man , el Huram Abbi ; which is not fo be translated , like the Vulgate Greek and Latin , Huram my father ; for his de ? scription , verse 14 , refutes it ; and the words import only Huram oj my father ' s , or the Chief Master-Mason of my father Abibalus . Yet some think' tliat King Hiram might call the architect Hiram his father , as learned and wise men were wont to be called by royal patrons in old times ; thus Joseph was called abrech , -or the
Icing ' s father ; and this same Hiram the architect-is called Solomon ' s father , 2 . Chron . iv . 16 . Gnasah Thuram Ahb ' fla Mclech Shelomoh . Did Hiram his father make to King Solomon . But the difficulty is over at once by allowing the word Abbif to be the surname of Hiram the artist , called above Hiram Abbi , and here called Huram Abbif , as in the Lodge he is called Hiram Abbif , to distinguish him from King Hiram : for
this reading makes the sense plain and compfete , viz . that Hiram , King of Tyre , sent to KingSolpmon the cunning workman Hiram Abbif . He is described in two places , 1 Kings VII . 13 , 14 , 15 . and 2 Chron . ii . 13 , 14 . in the first lie is called a widmii ' s son of the tribe of Naphtali , and in the other he is ¦ called the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan ; but in both , that his father was a ¦ nan of Tyre : that is , she ' was of the daughters of the city of Dan , in the tribe of Naphtali , and is called a widow of Napbtali , as her husband was a Naphtalite ; for he is not called a Tyrian by descent , but a man of Tyre by habitation , as Obed
Edom the Levite is called a Citlite , arid the apostle Paul a man of Tarsus . But though Hjram Abbif had been a Tyrian by blood , that derogates not from his vast capacity ; for Tynans now were the best artificers , by the encouragement of King Hiram : aiid those texts testify that God had endued this Hiram Abbif with wisdom , understanding , and mechanical cunning to perform every thing that Solomon required ' ; not only in building the temple with all its costly magnificence , but also in founding , fashioning , and framing all the holy utensils thereof , and to find out every device that shall be put to him ! And the scripture assures us , that he fully maintained his character in far larger works than those of Aholiab , and Bezaleel ; for which he will be honoured in Lodges till the end of time .
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History Of Masonry.
jo what port yoii please , where they may _ lie ready for your own men to transport them to Jerusalem . It would be a great obligation , after all this , to allow us such a provision of corn in exchange , as may stand with j'our convenience ; for that is the commodity we islanders want most . " Solomonto testify his great satisfaction from this answer of the
, Tyrian king , and in return for his generous offers , ordered him a yearly present of 20 , 000 measures of wheat , and zo , ooo measures of fine oil for his household ; besides a like quantity of barley , wheat , wine and oil , which he engaged to give Hiram ' s masons , who were to be employed in the intended work of the temple . Hiram was to send the cedars , fir , and other woods , upon floats to Joppa , to be
delivered to whom Solomon should direct , in order to be carried to Jerusalem . He sent him also a man of his own name , a Tyrian by birth , but of Israelitish descent , who was a second Bezaleel , and honoured by his king with the title of Father : in 2 Chron . ii . 13 . he is called Hiram Abbif , the most accomplished designer and operator upon earth * ; whose abilities were not confined to building only , but " extended to afi kinds of work , whether in gold , silver , brass , or iron ; whether in linen , tapestry , or embroidery ; whether considered as an
* In 2 Chron . ii . 13 . Hiram , King of Tyre ( called there Huram ) in his letter ¦ to King Solomon , says , I have sent a cunning man , el Huram Abbi ; which is not fo be translated , like the Vulgate Greek and Latin , Huram my father ; for his de ? scription , verse 14 , refutes it ; and the words import only Huram oj my father ' s , or the Chief Master-Mason of my father Abibalus . Yet some think' tliat King Hiram might call the architect Hiram his father , as learned and wise men were wont to be called by royal patrons in old times ; thus Joseph was called abrech , -or the
Icing ' s father ; and this same Hiram the architect-is called Solomon ' s father , 2 . Chron . iv . 16 . Gnasah Thuram Ahb ' fla Mclech Shelomoh . Did Hiram his father make to King Solomon . But the difficulty is over at once by allowing the word Abbif to be the surname of Hiram the artist , called above Hiram Abbi , and here called Huram Abbif , as in the Lodge he is called Hiram Abbif , to distinguish him from King Hiram : for
this reading makes the sense plain and compfete , viz . that Hiram , King of Tyre , sent to KingSolpmon the cunning workman Hiram Abbif . He is described in two places , 1 Kings VII . 13 , 14 , 15 . and 2 Chron . ii . 13 , 14 . in the first lie is called a widmii ' s son of the tribe of Naphtali , and in the other he is ¦ called the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan ; but in both , that his father was a ¦ nan of Tyre : that is , she ' was of the daughters of the city of Dan , in the tribe of Naphtali , and is called a widow of Napbtali , as her husband was a Naphtalite ; for he is not called a Tyrian by descent , but a man of Tyre by habitation , as Obed
Edom the Levite is called a Citlite , arid the apostle Paul a man of Tarsus . But though Hjram Abbif had been a Tyrian by blood , that derogates not from his vast capacity ; for Tynans now were the best artificers , by the encouragement of King Hiram : aiid those texts testify that God had endued this Hiram Abbif with wisdom , understanding , and mechanical cunning to perform every thing that Solomon required ' ; not only in building the temple with all its costly magnificence , but also in founding , fashioning , and framing all the holy utensils thereof , and to find out every device that shall be put to him ! And the scripture assures us , that he fully maintained his character in far larger works than those of Aholiab , and Bezaleel ; for which he will be honoured in Lodges till the end of time .