What Does 1 Chronicles 16:15 Mean in the King James?
Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;
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
“Be mindful” grows from the same root as “remembrance”: the covenant is kept present across generations, not left behind in the past.
THE MEANING
You are within a covenant whose word reaches beyond one lifetime, into generation after generation. Remembering keeps that promise present now; its reach is measured in a thousand generations.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The promise is not limited to the first people who hear it, and time does not use it up.
THE ROOT
זִכְרוּ
zikhru
GROWS FROM
זכר
To remember, recall, or keep in mind.
The Hebrew verb translated “be mindful” is an imperative form of זכר, “to remember.” The same root forms words for remembrance and memorial, linking the act of remembering with something kept present across time.
ALSO GROWS
zikkārôn: Remembrance; memorial.
זִכָּרוֹן
A memorial makes remembrance tangible, illuminating how the covenant is held present rather than treated as a vanished event.
zēkher: Remembrance; mention.
זֵכֶר
This branch connects remembering with keeping something in view and in speech, fitting a word carried through generations.
THE PATTERN
Covenant remembrance carries a promise beyond the lifetime of any one generation.
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;THE THREAD
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.The same זכר root appears in God’s promise to remember the covenant, showing remembrance as more than passive recall: it keeps the covenant present across time. The call to remember here echoes that same word in God’s own promise.
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