What Does 1 Chronicles 11:4 Mean in the King James?
And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse holds wholeness and occupation in one place: Jerusalem is already named while it is still Jebus, inhabited by the Jebusites.
THE MEANING
You can be moving toward wholeness while the ground you enter still carries an older name and remains occupied by what has long settled there. The verse holds both realities together: Jerusalem names wholeness, while Jebus and its inhabitants name what is still present. The movement begins before the place looks empty or finished.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that movement toward wholeness can begin only after every old occupant and condition is gone. Here, the movement begins while they are still present.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
To be whole, complete, intact.
The name carries shalom, wholeness, and its dual ending can be heard as two wholenesses. English leaves that seed hidden inside “Jerusalem”; the verse speaks the name of wholeness over a place that is still inhabited.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
It reveals the nature held inside Jerusalem’s name.
shalem: Whole, complete, intact.
שָׁלֵם
It shows that wholeness is a state of being made complete.
יֹשְׁבֵי
yoshvei
GROWS FROM
ישב
y-sh-v
To sit, settle, dwell.
The inhabitants are literally those who sit or dwell there; the verse does not describe empty ground. David and all Israel are moving into a place where others are already settled, so the name of wholeness meets an occupied reality.
ALSO GROWS
yashav: To sit, dwell, settle.
יָשַׁב
It makes the presence of the Jebusites an active condition of the place.
moshav: A dwelling, seat, or settlement.
מוֹשָׁב
It extends the root’s sense from a person dwelling to the place of dwelling.
דָּוִד
David
GROWS FROM
דוד
d-w-d
Beloved.
David’s name carries belovedness. The movement toward Jerusalem is led by the beloved and includes all Israel, joining belonging with the approach to wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
dod: Beloved; also an uncle, depending on context.
דּוֹד
It reveals the belovedness carried in David’s name.
dodim: Loves or beloved ones.
דּוֹדִים
It shows the root extending into the language of love and belovedness.
THE PATTERN
A present condition does not exhaust the nature a name can disclose.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Jerusalem’s name and the phrase “peace of Jerusalem” meet in shalom (שָׁלוֹם, shalom, wholeness). The verse’s name is spoken again as the city’s lived condition: wholeness named, and wholeness sought for the place.
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