Bezalel and Oholiab, who are said to have been “filled . . . with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills” (Exodus 35:31). It is the Spirit of God, the God who creates, who fills us in order to create (and as the later passages indicate, with “the ability to teach others” [35:34]). Bezalel and Oholiab are the first examples in the Bible of human beings filled with the Holy Spirit. To God, and to the writers of
Bezalel and Oholiab!
