What Does 2 Samuel 12:24 Mean?
And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon, and the LORD loved him.
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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 David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.THE KEY
Solomon’s name carries the root of wholeness, and the verse places that name beside the LORD’s love.
THE MEANING
You meet a child whose name carries wholeness, and the LORD’s love is spoken over him without qualification. The verse holds sexual intimacy, birth, naming, and love in one sentence, allowing this life to be more than the circumstances of its beginning.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The circumstances around a child’s conception determine that child’s worth or make him unlovable.
THE ROOT
שְׁלֹמֹה
Shelomoh
GROWS FROM
שלם
š-l-m
To be whole, complete, or sound.
“Solomon” in this verse is Shelomoh. The English preserves the name but not its audible kinship with שָׁלוֹם (shalom), wholeness. The verse places that name beside the LORD’s love: the child is named with wholeness and received in love.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
This is the familiar branch audible in Solomon’s name, joining his name to the idea of wholeness.
shalem: Whole, complete, sound.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the name’s root concrete: Solomon’s name carries the language of something whole.
shelem: A well-being or peace offering.
שֶׁלֶם
This branch shows the root extending from wholeness into a shared offering associated with well-being.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names wholeness as something given, embodied, and carried.
The LORD lift up his face upon you, and give you wholeness.For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; the governance shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of the Ages, Prince of Wholeness.Wholeness I leave with you; my wholeness I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be stirred, and do not let it shrink.THE THREAD
For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; the governance shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of the Ages, Prince of Wholeness.Solomon’s name and “Prince of Peace” both carry שָׁלוֹם (shalom), from the root שלם, wholeness. Isaiah also joins a child’s birth to a name that bears this meaning, making the name a nature spoken over the child.
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