to Huram the King of Tyre, and said, "Send me a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and Jerusalem." "And Huram the King of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, and said, Now I have sent thee a cunning man, endued with understanding, 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."
Now every student of the Bible knows that these Old Testament works are but symbols and types of the glory that should follow the sufferings of Christ.
When Noah and his family came forth out of the ark after the flood, the Bible tells us that God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto
