What Does 1 Chronicles 13:11 Mean?
And David burned, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza, so that place is called Perez-uzzah, the breach of Uzza, to this day.
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And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.THE KEY
The breach is not merely the event’s description; it becomes the place’s name, making rupture part of its identity.
THE MEANING
The verse holds the LORD’s breach upon Uzza beside David’s displeasure; the rupture and the anger remain visible together. The place’s name carries the breach forward, keeping the cost of the event before you now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that anger has no place when harm is attributed to God is contradicted here: David is displeased, and the verse leaves his response visible.
THE ROOT
פֶּרֶץ
perets
GROWS FROM
פרץ
parats
To break through, burst out; a breach or breakthrough.
“made a breach” in this verse is perets. Hebrew repeats this root as both action and result: the LORD breaks through a breach. The same force names a child breaking forth and a breaker opening a way; here it lands upon Uzza, and the word does not soften it.
ALSO GROWS
parats: To break through; to burst forth.
פָּרַץ
The Hebrew verse uses this verb alongside the noun for breach, making the rupture both an action and its result.
perets: Breach; a breaking forth.
פֶּרֶץ
In Genesis, this word names Pharez after he breaks forth, showing that the same root can mark an arrival as well as a wound.
porets: Breaker; one who breaks through.
פּוֹרֵץ
Micah uses this word for the one who goes before the people, showing the same root opening a passage.
THE PATTERN
A breach is a forceful opening whose consequences are carried forward in what is exposed or passes through.
The one who breaks through goes up before them. They break through, pass through the gate, and go out through it. Their king passes before them, and the LORD is at their head.And you will go out through the breaches, each woman straight before her face, and you will be thrown into the strongholds, says the LORD.And they could not draw near to him because of the press, so they stripped the roof above where he was, and when they had dug it open, they lowered the mat on which the paralyzed man lay.THE THREAD
The one who breaks through goes up before them. They break through, pass through the gate, and go out through it. Their king passes before them, and the LORD is at their head.Micah’s פּוֹרֵץ (porets, breaker) comes from פרץ (parats, break through), the same root behind פֶּרֶץ (perets, breach). Here that root names a breach upon Uzza; in Micah it names a breach that opens passage, without making this verse’s rupture harmless.
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