What Does 2 Chronicles 35:16 Mean?
So all the serving of the LORD was set firm that same day, to make the Passover, and to send up the rising offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.THE KEY
The service’s “prepared” shape comes from a root meaning “to be established”: remembrance becomes a settled, shared act.
THE MEANING
Passover is kept, offerings rise upon the LORD’s altar, and the command gathers the work into one service. Remembrance takes visible form through service given a shared, stable shape.
THE ROOT
וַתִּכּוֹן
vattikkon
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To become firm, be established, or be set in place.
“set firm” in this verse is vattikkon. The Hebrew word carries the sense of readiness as firmness: the service is established in place. Passover and the offerings are gathered into a settled arrangement.
ALSO GROWS
nakhon: Firm, established, ready.
נָכוֹן
The service’s readiness has the character of something made steady and ready for its purpose.
makon: A fixed place, dwelling, or foundation.
מָכוֹן
This branch connects being established with having a place: the service is given a form in which its acts can take place.
עֲבוֹדַת
avodat
GROWS FROM
עבד
avad
To serve or work.
The word for service grows from the same root as serving and servant. Here service is visible in the work of keeping Passover and bringing offerings, joining remembrance to acts of service.
ALSO GROWS
avad: To serve or work.
עָבַד
The root’s action is carried out in the keeping of Passover and the offering of sacrifices.
eved: A servant.
עֶבֶד
This branch ties service to the one who serves, giving the word a personal and enacted dimension.
THE PATTERN
Shared worship takes shape when remembrance and offering are prepared as coordinated service.
On the first day there will be a set-apart gathering, and on the seventh day there will be a set-apart gathering for you; no work will be done in them, except what every living soul must eat. Only that may be done by you.And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.Let all things become well shaped, and in rank.THE THREAD
My heart is set firm, O God, my heart is set firm. I sing and pluck the strings.“Prepared” here and “fixed” there share the Hebrew root כון (kun), meaning to be established or made firm. In this verse the service is set in place; in the psalm the heart is steady, linking outer readiness with inward constancy.
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