What Does 1 Chronicles 24:11 Mean in the King James?

The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,

1 Chronicles 24:11 · KJV

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 roster’s numbered places carry names rooted in deliverance and dwelling.

THE MEANING

Here, the ninth and tenth places bear the names Jeshua and Shecaniah, rooted in deliverance and dwelling. The verse holds those meanings within the plain order of service, letting the names carry more than the numbers alone.

THE ROOT

יֵשׁוּעַ

Yeshua

GROWS FROM

ישע

yasha

Deliver, rescue, bring into safety.

Jeshua carries the root of deliverance as a name. In this roster, that meaning sits within an ordered place of service, even though the verse does not describe a rescue.

ALSO GROWS

yasha: To deliver or rescue.

יָשַׁע

This verb is the seed beneath Jeshua’s name, connecting the name to the act of deliverance.

yeshuah: Deliverance; rescue.

יְשׁוּעָה

This noun makes explicit the deliverance carried in the name Jeshua.

שְׁכַנְיָה

Shekanyah

GROWS FROM

שכן

shakan

Dwell, settle, inhabit.

Shecaniah joins the dwelling-root with the divine name, carrying the sense that God dwells. The roster places this name within its sequence, so dwelling is present as a meaning held in the name.

ALSO GROWS

shakan: To dwell, settle, or inhabit.

שָׁכַן

This verb is the root of the name, giving Shecaniah its dwelling meaning.

mishkan: Dwelling place; tabernacle.

מִשְׁכָּן

This branch makes dwelling into a place, echoing the idea carried by Shecaniah’s name.

THE PATTERN

Shared service is carried through distinct places arranged in an order.

These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

1 Chronicles 24:19 · KJVIt describes the priestly service as an ordered sequence of distinct turns.

And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,

Luke 1:8 · KJVThe priestly office unfolds within an assigned course, echoing the ordered turns in this verse.

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:18 · KJVThe image of a body holds distinct members in their appointed places within one whole.

THE THREAD

Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

Psalm 3:8 · KJV

Jeshua in this roster shares its Hebrew root with the word rendered “salvation” here, which carries the sense of deliverance. The psalm makes that root explicit, revealing the deliverance held within the roster’s name.

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