What Does 2 Chronicles 4:22 Mean?
And the trimmers, and the sprinkling bowls, and the spoons, and the firepans, of clean gold; and the opening of the house, its inner doors for the most set-apart place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
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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 the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.THE KEY
The gold called “pure” is described with a word tied to enclosure, and it reaches the doors enclosing the innermost place.
THE MEANING
The service vessels, the entrance, and the inner doors all carry the same gold. The boundary to the most set-apart place shares the material of the things within it. The verse presents the approach and the interior as parts of one design.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The value belongs only to what is hidden inside. Here the entry and inner doors carry gold too.
THE ROOT
זָהָב סָגוּר
zahav sagur
GROWS FROM
סגר
s-g-r
To shut, close, or enclose; with gold, סָגוּר (sāgūr) describes refined gold.
“clean” in this verse is zahav sagur. The word rendered “pure” is סָגוּר (sāgūr, closed or refined), from סגר (s-g-r, shut or enclose). A related form, מִסְגֶּרֶת (misgeret, frame or border), carries the same enclosing sense; here, the gold appears on vessels and on the doors that bound the inner place.
ALSO GROWS
sāgar: To shut or close.
סָגַר
It gives the root’s basic sense of closure, echoing the inner doors named in the verse.
misgeret: A frame, border, or enclosure.
מִסְגֶּרֶת
It shows how the same root can describe a boundary or setting around something.
קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים
qodesh haqodashim
GROWS FROM
קדשׁ
q-d-sh
To set apart.
קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh, set-apart place) names the inner destination of these doors, and מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash, sanctuary) comes from the same root. The doors mark the boundary of what is set apart, and the verse gives that boundary the same gold as the sanctuary’s vessels.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart.
קָדוֹשׁ
It expresses the quality carried by the place behind the inner doors.
miqdash: Sanctuary, a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
It names a place shaped by the same root as the “most holy place” in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Precious material extends across the dwelling’s interior and its boundaries, making the whole design share one value.
And you sheathe it in clean gold, within and without you sheathe it, and make upon it a crown of gold round about.And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each gate of one pearl, and the wide way of the city is clean gold, like clear glass.THE THREAD
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and opened blossoms, and sheathed them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm trees.The Hebrew word דֶּלֶת (delet, door) appears in both descriptions of the sanctuary’s doors. Here, 1 Kings makes explicit that the carved doors themselves receive gold, treating the threshold as part of the sanctuary’s finished interior.
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