What Does 1 Chronicles 22:9 Mean?

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about, for his name shall be Solomon, wholeness, and I will give wholeness and stillness to Israel in his days.

1 Chronicles 22:9 · SDV

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Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

THE KEY

Solomon’s name and Israel’s peace share the root of wholeness, so the quiet around him makes his name’s nature visible.

THE MEANING

Peace reaches beyond a private feeling: rest from hostility opens into quietness shared by a people. The name in the verse carries that same root of wholeness, made present in the life around him.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Peace is only an inward feeling, separate from the conditions around you.

THE ROOT

שְׁלֹמֹה

Shelomoh

GROWS FROM

שלם

š-l-m

To be whole, complete, or intact.

“Solomon, wholeness” in this verse is Shelomoh. Solomon’s name carries the same root as ⁨שָׁלוֹם⁩ (shalom, peace and wholeness), the peace given to Israel in this verse. His name is not only a label: the people’s settled wholeness gives it visible form.

ALSO GROWS

shalom: Peace, wholeness, welfare.

שָׁלוֹם

The verse uses this word for the peace given to Israel, joining the people’s condition to Solomon’s name.

shalem: Whole, complete.

שָׁלֵם

This branch brings out the completeness carried beneath the verse’s promise of peace.

מְנוּחָה

menuchah

GROWS FROM

נוח

n-w-ḥ

To settle or rest.

The verse calls him a “man of rest,” then uses the same root when God gives him rest from his enemies. Rest is both a quality associated with him and a condition bestowed around him.

ALSO GROWS

nuach: To rest, settle.

נוּחַ

This verb supplies the basic action held in “a man of rest.”

heniach: To cause to rest, set down.

הֵנִיחַ

This causative form echoes the promise that God will give him rest from surrounding enemies.

THE PATTERN

Peace is given as a settled condition that makes room for life to flourish.

But now the LORD my God has given me rest all around, and there is neither an adversary nor evil encounter.

1 Kings 5:4 · SDVRest from surrounding opposition makes peace a condition of the whole field, as in the promise to Solomon.

And the work of alignment will be wholeness, and the service of alignment will be stillness and trust for the ages.

Isaiah 32:17 · SDVPeace and quietness appear together as the settled result of alignment.

Wholeness I leave with you; my wholeness I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be stirred, and do not let it shrink.

John 14:27 · SDVPeace is given to the reader as a present steadiness, echoing the gift of rest in this verse.

THE THREAD

In his days the aligned one blooms, and wholeness in abundance until the moon is no more.

Psalm 72:7 · SDV

The Hebrew word translated “peace” is ⁨שָׁלוֹם⁩ (shalom, peace and wholeness), from the same root carried by Solomon’s name. Both verses tie his days to the people’s shared experience of peace.

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