What Does 1 Chronicles 29:21 Mean in the King James?

And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

1 Chronicles 29:21 · 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

The same Hebrew root names both the act of sacrifice and its offerings, making devotion visible in what is given.

THE MEANING

The verse meets you with devotion that has physical substance: killed animals, burnt offerings, and poured drink offerings. The phrase “for all Israel” gathers that abundance into a shared act. Its scale makes devotion visible and communal, not merely inward.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the idea that devotion is only an inward feeling: here it has material substance and a communal reach.

THE ROOT

זָבַח

zāvaḥ

GROWS FROM

זבח

z-b-ḥ

to slaughter; to sacrifice

“sacrificed / sacrifices” in this verse is zāvaḥ. The verb “sacrificed” and the noun “sacrifices” share the same root, so the Hebrew binds the act to what is offered. The repeated seed makes the offering itself the visible form of the action.

ALSO GROWS

zebaḥ: sacrifice; slaughtered offering

זֶבַח

The noun names the offering with the same root as the verse’s verb, joining deed and gift.

mizbēaḥ: altar

מִזְבֵּחַ

The altar extends the same root from the act and offering to the place organized around sacrifice.

עֹלָה

ʿōlāh

GROWS FROM

עלה

ʿ-l-h

to go up; to ascend

“burnt offerings” in this verse is ʿōlāh. The Hebrew word translated “burnt offering” comes from the root meaning “to go up.” Alongside ⁨זבח⁩, which names slaughter, ⁨עלה⁩ gives the offering an upward movement: the verse holds both the material offering and what rises.

ALSO GROWS

ʿālāh: to go up; to ascend

עָלָה

This verb supplies the upward movement carried in the name of the burnt offering.

maʿālāh: ascent; step

מַעֲלָה

This noun preserves the same root’s sense of upward movement, widening the image beyond the offering itself.

THE PATTERN

Devotion takes concrete form when what is offered is gathered into a shared act.

And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

Exodus 24:5 · KJVDifferent offerings are named together as a tangible act shared by the people.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Romans 12:1 · KJVThe plural “your bodies” becomes one shared image of embodied offering.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Hebrews 13:15 · KJVThe shared act takes the form of praise, offered through the concrete fruit of speech.

THE THREAD

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

Psalm 4:5 · KJV

Psalm 4:5 uses ⁨זבח⁩ for both “offer” and “sacrifices,” binding the action and its gift just as this verse does. Its phrase “sacrifices of righteousness” opens another dimension: the offering’s meaning is shaped by what it embodies, not only by its abundance.

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