What Does 1 Chronicles 29:29 Mean in the King James?
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
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
Hebrew names David’s “acts” with the same word-family that names speech and affairs, so a life’s deeds arrive joined to the telling that preserves them.
THE MEANING
David (דָּוִד, dāvid, beloved) is seen across his first and last things, with his record held through Samuel, Nathan, and Gad. Your life, too, is more than its latest moment: its deeds can be carried forward in words and held by witness. What is lived becomes visible through the telling and the record.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A whole life can be reduced to its latest act or to one person’s account.
THE ROOT
דִּבְרֵי
divrê
GROWS FROM
דבר
davar: speak; the noun family also names a word, matter, or affair.
The Hebrew דִּבְרֵי (divrê) can name words, matters, or affairs; translators render it as “acts” here, while the same consonants also name speaking. David’s deeds arrive already joined to their telling.
ALSO GROWS
davar: word, matter, or affair
דָּבָר
This noun shares the root and shows how the verse’s “acts” also belong to the language of words and matters.
dibber: spoke
דִּבֵּר
This verb from the same root links speech to the affairs preserved in the account.
כְּתוּבִים
ketuvim
GROWS FROM
כתב
katav: write or inscribe.
The verse calls the records כְּתוּבִים (ketuvim, written), placing David’s span in a form that can be read beyond the moment. The root joins the act of writing to the written message it leaves behind.
ALSO GROWS
katav: write or inscribe
כָּתַב
This verb names the action behind the verse’s written record.
mikhtav: letter or written message
מִכְתָּב
This written message comes from the same root, showing how writing carries words forward.
רֹאֶה
ro’eh
GROWS FROM
ראה
ra’ah: see, look at, or perceive.
Samuel’s title is רֹאֶה (ro’eh, seer), from רָאָה (ra’ah, see); Gad’s title is חֹזֶה (ḥozeh, seer), from חָזָה (ḥazah, perceive in vision). The verse places two distinct words for seeing beside the written record, carrying the account through more than one line of perception.
ALSO GROWS
ra’ah: see or perceive
רָאָה
This verb is the root of Samuel’s title and identifies the act contained in “seer.”
mar’eh: sight, appearance, or vision
מַרְאֶה
This word from the same root shows how seeing can become a vision that is held in the account.
THE PATTERN
Deeds pass into a durable account through speech, writing, and witness.
Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.THE THREAD
Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.Both verses use כָּתַב (katav, write): here David’s acts are כְּתוּבִים (ketuvim, written), while Samuel records the kingdom’s order in a book. The written witness carries what is spoken beyond the instant in which it is heard.
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