What Does 2 Chronicles 1:3 Mean?
So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
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So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.THE KEY
The whole assembly moves toward a tent whose name carries the idea of an appointed meeting with God.
THE MEANING
You are inside a scene of shared approach: the gathered people move toward the appointed meeting place. The tent made in the wilderness stands at the center of their gathering, showing encounter as something approached together.
THE ROOT
אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד הָאֱלֹהִים
ʾōhel mōʿēd hāʾĕlōhîm
GROWS FROM
יעד
yaʿad
To appoint or designate; by extension, to meet at an appointed place or time.
“tent of meeting” in this verse is ʾōhel mōʿēd hāʾĕlōhîm. The phrase’s meeting word comes from the root also used when God says, “I will meet with thee.” The tent’s name holds the purpose of the place: an appointed encounter.
ALSO GROWS
moed: An appointed time, meeting, or appointed place.
מוֹעֵד
This is the word in “tabernacle of the congregation”; its root makes the place’s meeting function part of its name.
wənoʿadtî: “I will meet,” from Exodus 25:22.
וְנוֹעַדְתִּי
The same root turns the appointed meeting into a promise of meeting: the tent’s name and God’s words share one seed.
THE PATTERN
Encounter takes shape as people gather around a place appointed for meeting with God.
And Moses took the tent and stretched it out outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the Tent of Meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.For where two or three are gathered together in my nature, there I am in the midst of them.And there I meet with you, and I speak with you from above the covering, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the witness, all that I command you to the children of Israel.THE THREAD
And there I meet with you, and I speak with you from above the covering, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the witness, all that I command you to the children of Israel.The word translated “meet” comes from יעד (yaʿad), the root beneath moed, “appointed meeting,” in the tent’s name. The connection reveals that the tent is not only where the people gather; meeting is built into what the place is called.
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