What Does 1 Chronicles 21:29 Mean in the King James?
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
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 tabernacle settles, the offering rises, and even its maker, Moses, carries a name shaped by being drawn out.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s dwelling and the altar stand at Gibeon for a season: the dwelling settles, the offering rises, and Moses’ name carries the sense of being drawn out. The verse gives the reader a present image of sacred presence with a particular place and shape, even when that place belongs to one season.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The sacred is absent until it has a finished, permanent home.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שכן
sh-k-n
to dwell, settle, or remain
The tabernacle is named as a place where presence settles, and its root also forms the word for a neighbor, one who dwells nearby. Its name holds nearness inside the structure: this is a dwelling, not only a tent.
ALSO GROWS
mishkan: dwelling, tabernacle
מִשְׁכָּן
This is the verse’s word, naming the structure through the act of dwelling.
shakhen: neighbor, inhabitant
שָׁכֵן
Both words grow from dwelling, linking the sanctuary’s name with nearness and settled presence.
עֹלָה
olah
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
to go up, rise, or ascend
“burnt offering” in this verse is olah. Olah names the offering through the movement of going up. Beside the dwelling, its altar gives the verse a paired image: presence settled, offering ascending.
ALSO GROWS
ʿalah: to go up, rise, ascend
עָלָה
This verb is the root movement carried in the offering’s name.
ʿaliyah: ascent, going up
עֲלִיָּה
This related noun makes the offering’s upward movement visible in the same word-family.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משה
m-sh-h
to draw out
Moses’ name carries the act of drawing out, as the naming of him recalls being drawn from the water. The verse names the maker of the wilderness dwelling through a name already shaped by emergence.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: to draw out
מָשָׁה
This is the verb invoked to explain Moses’ name.
meshitihu: I drew him out
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
This form appears in the naming explanation in Exodus 2:10, connecting Moses’ name with the act of drawing out.
THE PATTERN
Divine presence becomes encounterable through a dwelling that occupies a particular place and can take different forms.
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.Exodus 40:34 uses מִשְׁכָּן (mishkan, dwelling or tabernacle), from שָׁכַן (shakan, dwell or settle), the same word-family behind this verse’s “tabernacle.” Exodus shows the dwelling filled with the LORD’s presence; 1 Chronicles locates that dwelling at Gibeon for its season.
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