What Does 1 Chronicles 5:20 Mean in the King James?
And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
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
Here, trust is not silence in danger: it is the reliance from which a cry for help rises in the middle of battle.
THE MEANING
The struggle is still real when the cry goes to God; trust is reliance expressed while the battle is underway. Help meets the people within the conflict without pretending the danger is unreal.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that trust means feeling untroubled dissolves here: they trust while they are still in battle and still crying out.
THE ROOT
בָּטְחוּ
bāṭĕḥû
GROWS FROM
בטח
to trust, feel secure, or rely with confidence
The word for trust carries the sense of finding security in someone. In this verse, trust does not remove the battle; it is the reliance from which the cry rises.
ALSO GROWS
bitachon: security, confidence, trust
בִּטָּחוֹן
This noun shows trust as a state of reliance, not merely agreement with an idea.
mivtaḥ: security, refuge, confidence
מִבְטָח
The same root can describe what someone rests secure in, giving the verse’s trust a tangible sense of reliance.
זָעֲקוּ
zāʿăqû
GROWS FROM
זעק
to cry out, especially to call aloud for help
“cried” in this verse is zāʿăqû. This is an audible cry from within the battle, not a private assurance that danger has passed. The same root appears in cries that rise from bondage, linking distress with a voice directed toward God.
ALSO GROWS
ze'aqah: an outcry, a cry for help
זְעָקָה
The noun makes the cry itself visible as something that rises from distress.
zo'eq: one crying out
זֹעֵק
This form keeps the caller present in the word: the cry belongs to someone still inside the pressure.
וַיֵּעָזְרוּ
vayyeʿāzĕrû
GROWS FROM
עזר
to help, support, or aid
“helped” in this verse is vayyeʿāzĕrû. The verse describes help received in the conflict, not the disappearance of the conflict. This root can name both the aid and the helper, bringing support into the center of the battle.
ALSO GROWS
ʿēzer: help, aid, helper
עֵזֶר
This branch names the support itself, echoing the help the people receive.
ʿezrāh: help, assistance
עֶזְרָה
The noun makes help an arriving form of aid rather than an abstract outcome.
THE PATTERN
Trust can speak as a cry from within trouble, and help meets the one who calls.
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.THE THREAD
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.The same root זעק (za’aq, to cry out) appears in the cry that rises from bondage. Pressure is not hidden in either verse; the cry is voiced toward God from within it.
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