What Does 1 Chronicles 22:1 Mean in the King James?
Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
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 burnt offering is named for its ascent, so the altar is where what is given rises.
THE MEANING
The house of the LORD God and the altar belong together: the house has a center where Israel’s burnt offering ascends. Its name carries the motion of rising, making the altar more than a structure; it is where an offering is given over and goes up.
THE ROOT
עֹלָה
ʿōlāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
to rise, ascend, or go up
The Hebrew word for “burnt offering” is עֹלָה (ʿōlāh, “ascent” or “that which goes up”), from the verb עלה (ʿālāh, “to ascend”). The name itself gives the offering a direction: what is placed on the altar rises.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: to ascend, go up
עָלָה
This verb is the seed of עֹלָה (ʿōlāh, “burnt offering/ascent”), revealing the upward motion carried in the offering’s name.
ʿăliyyāh: ascent, going up
עֲלִיָּה
This noun carries the same root sense of rising, echoing the movement encoded in the burnt offering’s name.
מִזְבֵּחַ
mizbēaḥ
GROWS FROM
זבח
z-b-ḥ
to slaughter for sacrifice; to sacrifice
The altar’s Hebrew name, מִזְבֵּחַ (mizbēaḥ, “altar”), is formed from זבח (z-b-ḥ), the root for sacrificing. Beside עֹלָה (ʿōlāh, “ascent”), it holds two parts of the image together: the place of sacrifice and the offering that rises.
ALSO GROWS
zāvaḥ: to sacrifice, slaughter for sacrifice
זָבַח
The verb names the act associated with the altar, making the altar more than a place-name.
zevaḥ: sacrifice, sacrificial offering
זֶבַח
This noun shares the altar’s root and links the place directly to what is sacrificed there.
THE PATTERN
Across Scripture, an offering is placed before God at an altar or presented as a life given to God.
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.THE THREAD
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.Genesis uses the same word עֹלָה (ʿōlāh, “burnt offering/ascent”) for what is placed on Noah’s altar. That shared root lets you hear David’s altar as a place where an offering rises.
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