What Does 2 Chronicles 2:15 Mean?
And now the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants,
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Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:THE KEY
Provision becomes support for the work when it is released into the hands of those serving.
THE MEANING
The grain, oil, and wine are tangible nourishment, sent onward until they reach the people serving. The verse shows provision moving from a promise into their hands.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The work can only be sustained by what you personally produce and control; here, its nourishment arrives through provision released by another.
THE ROOT
יִשְׁלַח
yishlach from shalach
GROWS FROM
ש־ל־ח
sh-l-ḥ
Send forth, release, let go.
“let him send” in this verse is yishlach from shalach. The Hebrew verb behind “send” also carries the sense of release: the grain, oil, and wine reach the servants because they are let go into their hands. The same root opens onto Shiloach’s flowing waters and the shulchan, the table where provision is spread out.
ALSO GROWS
Shiloach: Sent waters; the softly flowing waters of Shiloah.
שִׁלֹחַ
This branch carries the send-and-release image into water flowing from its source.
shulchan: Table.
שֻׁלְחָן
The table extends provision to others, bringing the root’s release image into nourishment set before people.
shilluach: Sending, release, or dismissal.
שִׁלּוּחַ
This noun makes explicit the movement already present in the verse: what is sent is released from one place to reach another.
THE PATTERN
Release turns what is held into movement toward its purpose.
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told the Great House, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may dance a feast to me in the wilderness.Because this people refuses the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoices in Rezin and Remaliah's son;Then the disciples, each according to his ability, marked out to send help to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea.THE THREAD
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told the Great House, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may dance a feast to me in the wilderness.The same root, ש־ל־ח (shalach, send or release), lies behind “send” here and “let my people go” in Exodus. The echo links a shipment of nourishment with the wider movement of release.
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