What Does 2 Chronicles 31:15 Mean?
And under his hand were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their guard, to give to their brothers by their watches, to the great as well as to the small.
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King James Version
And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:THE KEY
Care has a route: named hands place provision within reach of both the great and the small.
THE MEANING
Provision reaches you through an ordered chain of care, carried by people entrusted to place it where it belongs. Its reach includes both the great and the small; differences in size or standing do not erase anyone from the giving. What reads like a list of names also shows provision passing through many hands.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that only the prominent count when provision is shared: the giving expressly reaches the great and the small.
THE ROOT
לָתֵת
latet
GROWS FROM
נ־ת־ן
n-t-n
to give, set, or place
The Hebrew verb לָתֵת (latet, to give) comes from נָתַן (natan, to give, set, or place). Here, giving is provision being put into place through named hands, with its reach extending from the great to the small.
ALSO GROWS
mattanah: a gift or present
מַתָּנָה
The gift is not left as an abstract store; it is placed into the hands of stewards to reach others.
nathun: something given, set, or entrusted
נָתוּן
This branch brings the root’s sense of placement into view: provision is entrusted to people who carry it onward.
THE PATTERN
Provision becomes trustworthy when it is apportioned through responsible hands until it reaches those who need it.
And when they measured it with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing over, and the one who gathered little had no lack. Each one gathered according to his eating.Now, brothers, look out among you seven men of good witness, full of the Set-Apart Breath and wisdom, whom we may set over this need.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
You give to them, and they gather; you open your hand, and they are filled with good.The Hebrew verb תִּתֵּן (titten, you give) comes from נָתַן (natan, give, set, or place), the same root as “to give” here. This verse shows provision beginning as what is given; 2 Chronicles shows that gift placed into an ordered chain of human hands.
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