2 Chronicles 2:7-16

Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold.

Huram and Solomon

Learn from this intercourse--

I. That friendship in life is helpful.

II. That co-operation among men is desirable.

III. That men may know God, yet not serve him.

IV. That when God’s people are consistent in their life, their influence upon others is for good. (J. Wolfendale.)

Co-operation

No temple should be built by any one man. Blessed be God, everything that is worth doing is done by co-operation, by acknowledged reciprocity of labour. Your breakfast-table was not spread by yourself, although it could not have been spread without you. Sometimes we may almost bless God that we cannot identify the authorship of some books in the Bible. It is better that many hands should have written the book than that some brilliant author should have retired into immortality on the ground of his being the only genius that could have written so marvellous a volume. (J. Parker, D.D.)