to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.
The Israelites were trained in brick and clay, not in the fine arts; they had no goldsmiths or jewelers among them. Yet God knew exactly who was sufficient for this work and chose Bezaleel Himself, avoiding all envy and contest over preferment. He supplies what men cannot.
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Commenting on Exodus 31:1-11
And in cutting of stones to set them,.... Not of marble stones, or of any common stones used in building, and the cutting and hewing of them to be laid therein, for of those there was no use in the tabernacle; but of precious stones, and the cutting of them, and setting of them in their ouches or enclosures, as the onyx stones on the...
In cutting of stones, etc. - Every thing that concerned the lapidary's, jeweler's, and carver's art.