What Does 1 Chronicles 26:26 Mean?
Shelomith and his brethren were over all the storehouses of the set-apart things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had set apart.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.THE KEY
The treasures are the visible result of setting something apart, now held in human trust.
THE MEANING
The verse presents what is dedicated as tangible wealth entrusted to named people and shared responsibility. What is set apart remains in the world, held and guarded as something with a distinct purpose.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that what is sacred must be only inward or immaterial: here, sacred things are actual treasures under human care.
THE ROOT
הַקֳּדָשִׁים
haqqodashim
GROWS FROM
קדשׁ
q-d-sh
To set apart, mark as distinct or sacred.
“set-apart things” in this verse is haqqodashim. The verse uses this root both for what the leaders “had dedicated” and for the “dedicated things” now held in the treasury. The act of setting apart becomes a lasting condition: what is made distinct can be guarded and entrusted.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; sacred.
קָדוֹשׁ
The same root describes a person or people marked as distinct, showing that dedication is a quality of belonging and purpose.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The sanctuary is a space shaped by the same act of setting apart, just as these treasures are held apart for a distinct purpose.
qodesh: Holiness; something sacred or set apart.
קֹדֶשׁ
This noun names the sacred quality carried by the dedicated things in the verse.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart for God takes tangible form in a people, a place, or a trust held in human care.
And you shall be to me a governance of priests and a set-apart nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.And in trust they brought in the lifted gifts, and the tenths, and the set-apart things, over which Cononiah the Levite was leader, and Shimei his brother was second.But you are a chosen lineage, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people made his own, so that you may tell out the excellences of the one who called you out of darkness into his wondrous light.THE THREAD
And in trust they brought in the lifted gifts, and the tenths, and the set-apart things, over which Cononiah the Levite was leader, and Shimei his brother was second.Both verses use the Hebrew root קדשׁ (q-d-sh), meaning “set apart,” for dedicated things. Here they are held in a treasury; there, they are brought in faithfully under named custodians, the same root meets the same pattern of entrusted care.
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