Exodus 31:2 - Exposition

I have called by name . God "calls by name" only those whom he appoints to some high office, as Moses ( Exodus 3:4 ; Exodus 33:12 ), Cyrus ( Isaiah 45:3 , Isaiah 45:4 ), and here Bezaleel and Aholiab. He honours us highly in even condescending to "know us by name," still more in "calling" us. Bezaleel is traced to Judah in Chronicles through five ancestors—Uri, Hur, Caleb, Hezron, and Pharez, Judah's son by Tamar. The genealogy, though less contracted than most of those in Exodus, probably contains two or three omissions. The son of Hur . Hur, the grandfather of Bezaleel, is thought to be the person mentioned in Exodus 17:10 , and Exodus 24:14 .