What Does 2 Chronicles 35:6 Mean?
So slaughter the Passover, and set yourselves apart, and set your brothers firm, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
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 kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.THE KEY
Consecration becomes shared readiness: the people are set apart, their brothers are made ready, and the LORD’s word takes shape in what they do.
THE MEANING
The verse makes readiness communal: the Passover is killed, the people are set apart, and their brothers are prepared to act according to the LORD’s word. The instruction becomes shared practice through a community made ready to carry it out.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that consecration is only private: here, setting oneself apart is joined to preparing others for shared action.
THE ROOT
קַדְּשׁוּ
qaddeshu
GROWS FROM
קדש
qadash
Set apart; mark as sacred.
The root can name both the set-apartness of a people and the sacredness of a place. Here, being set apart is not only an inward state: it prepares the people for a concrete, shared service.
ALSO GROWS
qodesh: Set-apartness; sacredness.
קֹדֶשׁ
It shows that the people’s consecration belongs to a wider field of things marked for sacred purpose.
miqdash: Sanctuary; sacred place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The same root can describe a place set apart, linking the people’s consecration with the space and service they prepare for.
הָכִינוּ
hakhinu
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
Be firm or established; make ready.
“set firm” in this verse is hakhinu. The command to prepare the brothers carries the sense of making them ready and established for action. A branch of this root names a fixed place, so readiness here is something put in place, not merely intended.
ALSO GROWS
konen: Establish; make firm.
כּוֹנֵן
It brings out the solidity implied in preparing people to carry out the instruction.
makon: Established place; dwelling.
מָכוֹן
This branch shows readiness as something set in place, giving the community a stable footing for what it must do.
THE PATTERN
Readiness is set-apartness made active: it prepares hearts, paths, and people for a received purpose.
For Ezra had made his heart firm to seek the instruction of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.For this is the one spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, A voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make ready the way of the LORD; make his trails straight.If anyone therefore cleanses himself out of these, he will be a vessel for honor, set apart, good for the master's use, prepared for every good work.THE THREAD
Who sets his heart firm to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the cleansing of the set-apart place.Both verses use כון (kun, “establish; make ready”). In 35:6, readiness equips brothers for a shared Passover action; in 30:19, the same root describes a heart made ready to seek God, even while ritual cleansing remains incomplete.
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