What Does 1 Chronicles 26:27 Mean in the King James?
Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain 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 spoils of battle are set apart and turned into strength for the house of the LORD.
THE MEANING
Resources taken in battle are set apart to strengthen the house of the LORD; the violence of their source remains beside the sacred use they are given. What conflict leaves behind becomes material support for what is meant to endure.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the assumption that the house of the LORD is sustained only by resources untouched by conflict.
THE ROOT
לְחַזֵּק
leḥazzēq
GROWS FROM
חזק
Be strong; make firm or strengthen.
The verb rendered “maintain” comes from חזק (ḥ-z-q), the root of becoming strong and making firm. The house is not merely kept from falling away; the word pictures it being strengthened, as spoils from battle are redirected into its firmness.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāzaq: Be strong, become firm, or strengthen.
חָזַק
This is the root verb itself, showing that maintaining the house means making it strong.
ḥāzāq: Strong or mighty.
חָזָק
This related form puts the emphasis on the strength the house receives.
הִקְדִּישׁוּ
hiqdîšû
GROWS FROM
קדש
Set apart; consecrate.
To dedicate is to set something apart for a particular use. Its kinship with “set-apart” and “sanctuary” makes the movement visible: spoils are taken from ordinary use and given to strengthen the house.
ALSO GROWS
qādôsh: Set apart; holy.
קָדוֹשׁ
The same root names what is set apart, illuminating the purpose given to the spoils.
miqdāsh: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The house receiving the resources belongs to the same word-family as the act of setting them apart.
THE PATTERN
Resources become sustaining provision when they are deliberately set apart for what must endure.
The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.THE THREAD
So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.“Strengthened” comes from חזק (ḥ-z-q), the same root translated “maintain” here. The shared root reveals the result: resources set apart for the house become its firmness.
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