What Does 2 Chronicles 9:10 Mean?
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
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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.
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King James Version
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.THE KEY
The verse makes abundance a movement through service: what is precious must be carried into reach.
THE MEANING
What is valuable reaches you through hands already at work. Gold, wood, and stones are still materials here, carrying the possibility of becoming a place or music. Abundance is already relational, because it arrives through service.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that wealth appears by itself, with no human labor inside it.
THE ROOT
הֵבִיאוּ
hevi'u brought or
GROWS FROM
בוא
To come or enter; in this verb form, to cause something to come or bring it in.
The verse repeats this verb: the treasure is not simply present, but brought into reach. The Hebrew root keeps the movement of arrival inside the word, where English can make “brought” sound like a finished transaction.
ALSO GROWS
bo: To come or enter.
בּוֹא
The goods are made present by coming into the hands and place where they can be used.
mavo: An entrance or approach.
מָבוֹא
This branch keeps the sense of crossing into a place: valuable things arrive by being brought in.
עֲבָדִים
avadim servants or
GROWS FROM
עבד
To work or serve.
“servants” in this verse is avadim servants or. The carriers are named by their service: the verse places human work inside the arrival of wealth. Hebrew lets “servant” and “work” grow from the same root, joining the people who carry the materials to the labor that makes them useful.
ALSO GROWS
eved: A servant or worker.
עֶבֶד
This is the singular form behind the people whose service brings the goods.
avodah: Work, labor, or service.
עֲבֹדָה
The shared root links the servants in the verse with the work through which value enters a shared purpose.
יְקָרָה
yeqarah precious or
GROWS FROM
יקר
To be costly, valuable, or esteemed.
“precious” in this verse is yeqarah precious or. The word for preciousness also carries the sense of worth and honor. What is carried here has material value, but the root also opens the question of what is esteemed enough to be brought into a place of use.
ALSO GROWS
yaqar: Precious, costly, or esteemed.
יָקָר
This adjective shares the word’s root and shows that preciousness includes both material cost and regard.
yeqar: Worth or honor.
יְקָר
This noun carries preciousness into the language of esteem, widening the value of what is brought.
THE PATTERN
What arrives through many hands gains meaning as material for building and shared practice.
And the king made of the algum trees raised roads to the house of the LORD, and to the king's house, and lyres and harps for the singers; and no such had ever been seen in the land of Judah.The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman whose heart made them free-hearted to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.Now if anyone builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stubble;THE THREAD
The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman whose heart made them free-hearted to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.The Hebrew verb behind “brought” here is הֵבִיאוּ (hevi’u, brought), from בוא (bo, come or enter); the same root appears in Exodus 35:29 for what the people bring. Both verses show value entering a shared purpose through what people carry in.
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