What Does 2 Chronicles 15:18 Mean?
And he brought into the house of God the things his father had set apart, and the things he himself had set apart, silver, and gold, and vessels.
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King James wording
King James Version
And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.THE KEY
The house of God holds two generations of dedication at once: what Asa inherited and what he set apart himself.
THE MEANING
Here, dedication has weight and shape: silver, gold, and vessels are brought into the house of God. What the father set apart stands beside what Asa sets apart, holding inherited and personal devotion together.
THE ROOT
קָדְשֵׁי
qodshei
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To be set apart, made sacred, or consecrated.
“set apart” in this verse is qodshei. The Hebrew calls these the “set-apart things” of his father and of Asa himself. The silver, gold, and vessels carry that status into the house of God, so dedication has both a material form and a place of belonging.
ALSO GROWS
qodesh: A set-apart thing; sacredness.
קֹדֶשׁ
This noun names the category the gifts belong to: they are set apart for God.
qadosh: Set apart; sacred.
קָדוֹשׁ
This related form shows that the root describes a state of belonging as well as the act of dedicating.
THE PATTERN
Devotion takes tangible form when valued goods are given to God.
Out of the plunder taken in battles did they set apart, to strengthen the house of the LORD.Give the LORD weight with your wealth, and with the first of all your yield.Each one, as his heart has taken hold, so let him give, not from grief or from pressure, for God loves a glad giver.THE THREAD
Moreover, because I have delighted in the house of my God, I have from my own treasure, gold and silver, given to the house of my God, above all that I have set firm for the set-apart house.Here “holy house” uses קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh), from the same root that names Asa’s gifts as set-apart things. The shared root joins what is dedicated with the house that is itself set apart.
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