What Does 1 Chronicles 17:9 Mean in the King James?
Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
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’s “moved no more” reaches beneath relocation to trembling: being planted means the upheaval no longer gets the last word.
THE MEANING
You are given a place to dwell and pictured as planted there, not left to drift from one upheaval to the next. The promise holds the end of trembling together with the end of being ravaged by wickedness; neither is named as your permanent home.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this verse dissolves is that repeated upheaval and harm are the only conditions under which you can live.
THE ROOT
יִרְגַּז
yirgaṣ
GROWS FROM
רגז
r-g-z
Tremble, quake, or become agitated.
The Hebrew verb translated “be moved” carries the sense of trembling or agitation. The promise reaches beyond remaining in one place: it names an end to being continually shaken.
ALSO GROWS
ragaz: To quake, tremble, or become disturbed.
רָגַז
This verb shares the root of “be moved” and makes the promise’s sense of upheaval visible.
rogez: Agitation, disturbance, or turmoil.
רֹגֶז
This noun shows that the same root names the disturbance itself, not only the act of trembling.
וּנְטַעְתִּיו
u-netatiw
GROWS FROM
נטע
n-ṭ-ʿ
Plant; place as a growing thing in the ground.
“plant them” in this verse is u-netatiw. The verse does not picture security as mere occupancy: it pictures a people planted, able to take root and dwell. The image links lasting belonging with the rootedness of something living.
ALSO GROWS
nataʿ: To plant or set a growing thing in the ground.
נָטַע
This is the verb behind the verse’s image of a people rooted in a place.
mattaʿ: A planted place or plantation.
מַטָּע
The related noun makes planting a settled condition, illuminating the promise of a place where life can remain.
מָקוֹם
maqom
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
Rise or stand.
The Hebrew word for “place” grows from the root for rising or standing. Beside the image of planting, a place becomes where life can be established to stand.
ALSO GROWS
qum: To rise, stand, or remain standing.
קוּם
This verbal branch reveals the standing sense beneath the word for place.
heqim: To raise up or establish.
הֵקִים
This related form shows how the same root can express establishing something so it stands.
THE PATTERN
A life made stable is pictured as planting: rooted placement gives room to remain and grow.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.THE THREAD
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.Amos repeats נטע (nataʿ, to plant) and makes the image explicit: planted life is no longer pulled up. The shared root opens this verse’s promise of dwelling into a promise of lasting rootedness.
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