What Does 1 Chronicles 22:9 Mean in the King James?

Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

1 Chronicles 22:9 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

Solomon’s name and Israel’s peace share the root of wholeness, so the quiet around him makes his name’s nature visible.

THE MEANING

Peace reaches beyond a private feeling: rest from hostility opens into quietness shared by a people. The name in the verse carries that same root of wholeness, made present in the life around him.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Peace is only an inward feeling, separate from the conditions around you.

THE ROOT

שְׁלֹמֹה

Shelomoh

GROWS FROM

שלם

š-l-m

To be whole, complete, or intact.

Solomon’s name carries the same root as ⁨שָׁלוֹם⁩ (shalom, peace and wholeness), the peace given to Israel in this verse. His name is not only a label: the people’s settled wholeness gives it visible form.

ALSO GROWS

shalom: Peace, wholeness, welfare.

שָׁלוֹם

The verse uses this word for the peace given to Israel, joining the people’s condition to Solomon’s name.

shalem: Whole, complete.

שָׁלֵם

This branch brings out the completeness carried beneath the verse’s promise of peace.

מְנוּחָה

menuchah

GROWS FROM

נוח

n-w-ḥ

To settle or rest.

The verse calls him a “man of rest,” then uses the same root when God gives him rest from his enemies. Rest is both a quality associated with him and a condition bestowed around him.

ALSO GROWS

nuach: To rest, settle.

נוּחַ

This verb supplies the basic action held in “a man of rest.”

heniach: To cause to rest, set down.

הֵנִיחַ

This causative form echoes the promise that God will give him rest from surrounding enemies.

THE PATTERN

Peace is given as a settled condition that makes room for life to flourish.

But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

1 Kings 5:4 · KJVRest from surrounding opposition makes peace a condition of the whole field, as in the promise to Solomon.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Isaiah 32:17 · KJVPeace and quietness appear together as the settled result of alignment.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

John 14:27 · KJVPeace is given to the reader as a present steadiness, echoing the gift of rest in this verse.

THE THREAD

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

Psalm 72:7 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “peace” is ⁨שָׁלוֹם⁩ (shalom, peace and wholeness), from the same root carried by Solomon’s name. Both verses tie his days to the people’s shared experience of peace.

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