What Does 1 Chronicles 29:2 Mean in the King James?
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
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 word for stone can be heard as av + ben, father + son, so the material of the house already holds relationship inside its name.
THE MEANING
You see wholeheartedness taking precise form: gold is for gold, silver for silver, and each material keeps its own name as it is gathered for the house of God. Their abundance belongs to one dwelling without being flattened into one substance.
THE ROOT
אֲבָנִים
avanim
GROWS FROM
אבן
ʾeven
Stone; its sound-shape also invites the reading av, father, joined with ben, son.
The stone is more than inert building material in this reading: its name holds father and son together. The verse gathers many stones for one house, with relationship carried inside the material’s name.
ALSO GROWS
av: father + son
אָב + בֵּן
These words echo within the consonants of even, letting the stone carry the paired names of father and son.
even: stone
אֶבֶן
This is the singular word behind the verse’s stones, and the same word appears in the image of the cornerstone in Psalm 118:22.
הֲכִינוֹתִי
hakhinoti
GROWS FROM
כון
k-w-n
To be firm or established; in this verb form, to establish or prepare.
“prepared” in this verse is hakhinoti. The word for preparation carries the sense of making something firm and ready. David’s preparation is more than collecting materials: it is setting them in readiness for a dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
nakhon: firm, established, ready
נָכוֹן
This branch shows readiness as a settled condition, echoing materials prepared to take their place in the house.
makhon: established place, dwelling place
מָכוֹן
The same root can name an established dwelling, joining the act of preparing with the house those materials will serve.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling takes shape as distinct materials are made ready and gathered into one house.
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.And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.The same Hebrew word, אֶבֶן (even), means stone in both verses. Here stones are gathered for God’s house; in the Psalm, a stone the builders refuse becomes the cornerstone, revealing how the role of a stone in the house can change what its presence means.
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