What Does 2 Chronicles 24:10 Mean?
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and threw into the chest, until they had finished.
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King James wording
King James Version
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.THE KEY
The repeated “all” (כָּל, kol) echoes the opening consonants of “finish” (כָּלָה, kalah), linking the whole community to the offering’s completion.
THE MEANING
The whole community moves together from joy to a completed act of giving. Shared purpose takes material form through people bringing and placing what they contribute.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that provision for shared work belongs to a few leaders alone: the verse names both princes and people as participants.
THE ROOT
לְכַלֵּה
lekhallēh
GROWS FROM
כלה
k-l-h
to complete, bring to an end
“made an end” in this verse is lekhallēh. The two words for “all” are כָּל (kol), while the closing “finish” comes from כָּלָה (kalah). They are not the same root, but their shared k-l sound-shape links the whole community with the work reaching completion.
ALSO GROWS
killah: completed, brought to an end
כִּלָּה
This verbal form makes the closing action explicit: the contributions continue until the work is completed.
takhlit: end, purpose, goal
תַּכְלִית
The root also reaches toward an endpoint, illuminating the verse’s movement from collective participation to completion.
וַיִּשְׂמְחוּ
wayyismeḥu
GROWS FROM
שׂמח
ś-m-ḥ
to rejoice, be glad
“rejoiced” in this verse is wayyismeḥu. The verb shares its root with שִׂמְחָה (simchah), joy. Here joy moves straight into bringing and placing, so it is not only a private feeling but part of the community’s visible act.
ALSO GROWS
simchah: joy, gladness
שִׂמְחָה
The noun names the same quality expressed by the people’s rejoicing.
sameach: glad, joyful
שָׂמֵחַ
This related form describes the state carried into the act of giving.
וַיַּשְׁלִיכוּ
wayyashlikhu
GROWS FROM
שלך
sh-l-kh
to throw, cast
“cast” in this verse is wayyashlikhu. The verb presents the contribution as a physical act with a destination. That destination is לָאָרוֹן (la’aron, into the chest), using אָרוֹן (aron, chest/ark), the same noun used for the ark of the covenant.
ALSO GROWS
hishlikh: to throw, cast
הִשְׁלִיךְ
This form makes the people’s contribution an enacted movement into the chest.
hushlakh: to be thrown, cast down
הֻשְׁלַךְ
The related passive form keeps the root’s concrete sense of something physically cast.
THE PATTERN
Shared work takes form when collective joy becomes material participation.
Then the people rejoiced, for they offered willingly, because with a whole heart they offered willingly to the LORD, and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman whose heart made them free-hearted to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.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
Serve the LORD with gladness; come before his face with a ringing cry.The Hebrew word for “gladness” here, שִׂמְחָה (simchah), comes from the same root as “rejoiced” in this verse. It opens the offering as one form of service carried in joy.
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