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. (2 Chronicles 2:14)
According to 1 Kings 7:14 Hiram is said to have been a “widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali.” This is not necessarily a contradiction, for the mother could have been of the tribe of Dan and the father originally a member of the tribe of Naphtali, who became a naturalized citizen of Tyre.
Skilful to work.
These words, as well as all the rest of the verse, seem to apply to Hiram and not to his Tyrian father.
My lord David.
The use of this term denotes subserviency, or at least extreme respect (see Gen. 32:4, 5, 18; 42:10; 2 Kings 8:12). David held in vassalage much of Palestine and Syria, from the borders of Egypt to the Euphrates.