What Does 2 Chronicles 34:23 Mean?
And she answered them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Tell the man who sent you to me.
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And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,THE KEY
The verb behind “sent you” also means “let go,” so the answer arrives along a path whose language holds both sending and release.
THE MEANING
You receive words through a chain of people carrying them: the verse’s answer moves from sender to messenger to speaker and back to the sender. The LORD’s message reaches you through that human exchange.
THE ROOT
שׁלח
shalach
GROWS FROM
שלח
To send forth, release, or let go.
“sent you” in this verse is shalach. The Hebrew verb שָׁלַח (shalach) can mean to send or to release. English gives “sent” here, while the same root elsewhere carries the force of letting go, joining the arrival of a message with the language of release.
ALSO GROWS
let go: Release; let someone go.
The same root appears in Moses’ demand, “Let my people go,” linking this verse’s sending with release.
send: Send forth; dispatch.
Isaiah uses the same root when he answers, “send me,” showing the word’s sense of a messenger being sent.
THE PATTERN
A message moves through a chain of sending, and the language of sending can also carry release.
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.And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here I am; send me.Then Jesus said to them again, Wholeness be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.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 Hebrew verb translated “sent” in this verse is the same root used in “Let my people go.” The word that carries the seekers toward an answer also carries the sound of release.
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