What Does 1 Chronicles 13:11 Mean in the King James?
And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.
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 breach is not merely the event’s description; it becomes the place’s name, making rupture part of its identity.
THE MEANING
The verse holds the LORD’s breach upon Uzza beside David’s displeasure; the rupture and the anger remain visible together. The place’s name carries the breach forward, keeping the cost of the event before you now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that anger has no place when harm is attributed to God is contradicted here: David is displeased, and the verse leaves his response visible.
THE ROOT
פֶּרֶץ
perets
GROWS FROM
פרץ
parats
To break through, burst out; a breach or breakthrough.
Hebrew repeats this root as both action and result: the LORD breaks through a breach. The same force names a child breaking forth and a breaker opening a way; here it lands upon Uzza, and the word does not soften it.
ALSO GROWS
parats: To break through; to burst forth.
פָּרַץ
The Hebrew verse uses this verb alongside the noun for breach, making the rupture both an action and its result.
perets: Breach; a breaking forth.
פֶּרֶץ
In Genesis, this word names Pharez after he breaks forth, showing that the same root can mark an arrival as well as a wound.
porets: Breaker; one who breaks through.
פּוֹרֵץ
Micah uses this word for the one who goes before the people, showing the same root opening a passage.
THE PATTERN
A breach is a forceful opening whose consequences are carried forward in what is exposed or passes through.
The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.THE THREAD
The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.Micah’s פּוֹרֵץ (porets, breaker) comes from פרץ (parats, break through), the same root behind פֶּרֶץ (perets, breach). Here that root names a breach upon Uzza; in Micah it names a breach that opens passage, without making this verse’s rupture harmless.
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