What Does 1 Chronicles 26:22 Mean?
The sons of Jehieli were Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the storehouses of the house of the LORD.
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King James wording
King James Version
The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.THE KEY
The verse treats preservation itself as part of the LORD’s house: its treasures have named keepers.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s house includes what is stored as well as what is visible. Its provision is held in trust by particular hands, making unseen care part of the house’s living work.
THE ROOT
אֹצְרוֹת
ʾōṣərōt
GROWS FROM
אצר
ʾ-ṣ-r
To store up or gather into reserve.
“storehouses” in this verse is ʾōṣərōt. The Hebrew word can name both treasured goods and the reserve that holds them. Its word-family connects storing with the place where what is stored remains available, making custody part of the provision itself.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāṣar: To store up or lay away.
אָצַר
The act of gathering into reserve sits inside the word translated “treasures.”
ʾōṣār: A treasury or storehouse.
אוֹצָר
The same root names the place where provision is kept, as well as the act of keeping it.
THE PATTERN
Provision held for God’s house is entrusted to named keepers and ordered toward the community’s needs.
For these Levites, the four heads of the gatekeepers, were in trust, and were over the chambers and storehouses of the house of God.And I set over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the writer, and of the Levites Pedaiah; and at their hand was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, for they were steady, and their watch was to divide out to their brothers.and set them down at the feet of the sent ones, and it was given out to each as anyone had need.THE THREAD
Bring all of the tenth into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house. Test me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I do not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing until there is no more room.“Storehouse” translates the same Hebrew word אֹצָר (ʾōṣār), from the root אצר (ʾ-ṣ-r), as “treasures” here. Malachi links the reserve to provision for the house; this verse shows that the reserve has keepers.
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