What Does 2 Chronicles 15:10 Mean?
So they gathered themselves together in Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.THE KEY
The people gather toward Jerusalem, a destination whose name carries the language of wholeness.
THE MEANING
Wholeness takes shape as people gather at a shared center; it is not only an inward condition. The named month and year place this convergence in a concrete time and place.
THE ROOT
וַיִּקָּבְצוּ
wayyiqqavtsu
GROWS FROM
קבץ
q-b-ts
gather, collect, assemble
“gathered themselves together” in this verse is wayyiqqavtsu. The verb carries the movement of separate people being drawn into one assembly. English says they gathered, while the Hebrew root also opens the image of scattered pieces collected into a shared place.
ALSO GROWS
qibbēts: gathered, collected
קִבֵּץ
This active form shows the root drawing what is separate into a collection, the movement at the heart of the verse.
niqbaṣ: was gathered, assembled
נִקְבַּץ
This form presents people as becoming an assembly, echoing the verse’s picture of many gathered together.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
whole, complete; the wholeness expressed by shalom
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries the language of shalom with a dual ending: twofold wholeness. The gathering is anchored in a place whose name gives the assembly a direction toward shared wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This branch lets Jerusalem’s name resonate with the wholeness toward which the gathered people are oriented.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the place-name’s wholeness concrete: the gathering converges at a name that carries completeness.
THE PATTERN
A gathering makes shared belonging visible by drawing people into one place.
So they gathered themselves together in Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.He gathers them in from the lands, from the east and the west, from the north and the south.When the day of Pentecost was fully filled, they were all together in one place.THE THREAD
He gathers them in from the lands, from the east and the west, from the north and the south.Psalm 107:3 uses the same Hebrew root, קבץ (q-b-ts), for gathering people from every direction. Here that same gathering movement converges at Jerusalem, making scattered belonging visible in one place.
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