What Does 2 Chronicles 24:9 Mean?
And they made a voice cross through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses, the servant of God, laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
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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
And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.THE KEY
The collection is a thing lifted and carried, so the verse holds a shared offering and a shared burden in the same image.
THE MEANING
A call moves through the whole community, and what rests upon the people is carried together to the LORD. The contribution is not detached from its weight: the same word holds what is brought as an offering and what is laid upon the people.
THE ROOT
מַשְׂאַת
mas'et
GROWS FROM
נשא
nasa
To lift, carry, or bear.
English gives “collection” and “laid upon” separate jobs, while the Hebrew word for the collection grows from nasa, “to lift, carry, bear.” The gift is something Israel bears together; the word holds contribution and burden in one image.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: To lift, carry, or bear.
נָשָׂא
This verb is the seed behind the collection’s image of something carried.
massa: A load or burden.
מַשָּׂא
The same root names what is carried as weight, keeping the levy’s burden alongside its meaning as a contribution.
THE PATTERN
A community gathers what it carries and directs it toward shared worship or need.
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.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.But through evenness, that in this present season your overflow may fill their lack, and their overflow may fill your lack, that there may be evenness.THE THREAD
When you lift up the head of the children of Israel according to their counting, each man shall give a ransom for his living soul to the LORD when you count them, so that no striking falls among them when you count them.The Hebrew phrase כִּי תִשָּׂא (ki tisa, “when you lift”) uses the same root, nasa, as the collection in Chronicles. In Exodus, lifting the people’s count is joined to each person giving to the LORD; the shared root links gathering the people with what they carry.
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