What Does 1 Chronicles 26:22 Mean in the King James?
The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
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 treats preservation itself as part of the LORD’s house: its treasures have named keepers.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s house includes what is stored as well as what is visible. Its provision is held in trust by particular hands, making unseen care part of the house’s living work.
THE ROOT
אֹצְרוֹת
ʾōṣərōt
GROWS FROM
אצר
ʾ-ṣ-r
To store up or gather into reserve.
“treasures” in this verse is ʾōṣərōt. The Hebrew word can name both treasured goods and the reserve that holds them. Its word-family connects storing with the place where what is stored remains available, making custody part of the provision itself.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāṣar: To store up or lay away.
אָצַר
The act of gathering into reserve sits inside the word translated “treasures.”
ʾōṣār: A treasury or storehouse.
אוֹצָר
The same root names the place where provision is kept, as well as the act of keeping it.
THE PATTERN
Provision held for God’s house is entrusted to named keepers and ordered toward the community’s needs.
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.THE THREAD
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.“Storehouse” translates the same Hebrew word אֹצָר (ʾōṣār), from the root אצר (ʾ-ṣ-r), as “treasures” here. Malachi links the reserve to provision for the house; this verse shows that the reserve has keepers.
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