What Does 1 Chronicles 22:14 Mean?
Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver, and of bronze and iron beyond weighing, for it is abundant; wood also and stone I have prepared, and you may add to them.
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King James wording
King James Version
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.THE KEY
Affliction and immense preparation occupy the same sentence: what is bowed down can still help set a house in place.
THE MEANING
Affliction and vast provision meet here: materials are already prepared for the house of the LORD. The work is substantial, yet it remains open to what another may add. Trouble does not consume the whole future.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that affliction leaves nothing of value to prepare or pass forward.
THE ROOT
עָנְיִי
ʿonyî my affliction
GROWS FROM
עָנָה
ʿānâ
To be bowed down, afflicted, or humbled.
“affliction” in this verse is ʿonyî my affliction. The word rendered “trouble” carries the sense of being bowed down. Its root family includes both the afflicted person and the act of afflicting, so the verse places a condition of being pressed low beside an immense work already prepared.
ALSO GROWS
ʿānî: An afflicted or poor person
עָנִי
This branch gives “trouble” a human shape: the condition belongs to someone who is bowed low, yet the verse shows preparation alongside it.
ʿinnâ: To afflict or humble
עִנָּה
The verb names the pressure behind the condition, making clear that the speaker’s preparation takes place within affliction.
הֲכִינוֹתִי
hăḵînôtî I have
GROWS FROM
כון
kûn
To be firm or established; in a causative form, to establish or set in place.
“Prepared” can sound like simply gathering materials, but the root carries the sense of establishing and setting firmly in place. Its branches include a fixed place and what is made ready, so the materials are not just amassed: they are directed toward a house, with room for another to add.
ALSO GROWS
nākôn: Firm, established, or ready
נָכוֹן
This branch shows preparation as a state of readiness and firmness, matching materials already set aside for the house.
māḵôn: A fixed or established place
מָכוֹן
This branch links the act of preparing with the dwelling the materials are meant to serve.
THE PATTERN
A contribution made amid pressure can become part of a dwelling or generosity larger than the one preparing it.
That in a great testing of pressure, the overflow of their joy and the depth of their emptiness overflowed into the riches of their openhandedness.Even to set in place timber for me in abundance, for the house I am building will be great and wonderful.You also, as living stones, are built up into a house of breath, a set-apart priesthood, to carry up sacrifices of breath, well received by God through Jesus, the Anointed One.THE THREAD
Now I have set firm with all my strength for the house of my God, the gold for things of gold, the silver for things of silver, the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and the wood for things of wood, onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistening stones, and stones of various colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.It repeats הֲכִינוֹתִי (hăḵînôtî, “I have prepared”), from כון (kûn, “establish; set in place”). The fuller list shows the abundance ordered for particular uses in the house, opening this verse’s vast quantities as preparation with a destination.
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