“I have dispatched Huram-abi, a skilled artisan, endowed with understanding, the son of the Danite women. His father is a Tyrian. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood. He can also work with purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linens. He can do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your artisans, the artisans of my lord, your father King David. Now, as for the wheat, barley, oil and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send them to his servants. We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon.   We will bring it to you as rafts by sea to Joppa. Then you will take it up to Jerusalem.”

King Huram (Hiram) sent Huram-abi from Tyre, a very skilled artisan. Not only was he good with bronze, as in 1 Kings, chapter 7, he also could work with gold, silver, iron, stone and wood. This Huram-abi was also an engraver who could work with the artisans in Jerusalem, but he was not the king who has the same name. He was the son of a woman from Dan, not from Naphtali, as in 1 Kings. However, in both explanations, his father was from Tyre, probably a Phoenician. King Huram would accept all the food of wheat, barley, oil, and wine for the workers who came from Tyre and the Lebanon area. So this was a swap of food for timber and labor. The wood would be sent by the sea as wooden rafts as in 1 Kings, but here it lands in Joppa, an ancient costal town about 35 miles northwest of Jerusalem on the Mediterranean Sea.