What Does 1 Chronicles 9:22 Mean in the King James?
All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
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 people at the gates are not incidental staff: the community’s thresholds are established on trust.
THE MEANING
Your community’s thresholds are held by people whose reliability can be recognized and entrusted with responsibility. Even quiet service at an entrance belongs to the structure that lets a people gather and pass through.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a community is held together only by its most visible leaders dissolves here: the keepers at the thresholds are counted and entrusted as part of its foundation.
THE ROOT
אֱמוּנָה
emunah
GROWS FROM
אמן
To be firm, steady, and reliable.
The verse joins the keepers’ appointment with בֶּאֱמוּנָתָם (be’emunatam), “in their faithfulness.” Their place is grounded in a steadiness others can lean their full weight on; this is trust expressed as dependable service.
ALSO GROWS
amen: Amen; truly, firmly so.
אָמֵן
The word affirms something as firm, echoing the reliability entrusted to these keepers.
ne’eman: Reliable, trustworthy.
נֶאֱמָן
This branch describes the quality that makes someone fit to be entrusted with a community’s threshold.
יִסַּד
yissad
GROWS FROM
יסד
To lay a foundation; establish.
The verb translated “ordain” grows from the language of founding and establishing. The verse presents this service as something set firmly in place, joined to the keepers’ trustworthiness.
ALSO GROWS
yesod: Foundation.
יְסוֹד
The gatekeepers’ established role is part of the foundation of the community’s shared life.
mosad: Established place or institution.
מוֹסָד
This branch carries the sense of a role given a settled place within a larger structure.
THE PATTERN
A community’s thresholds hold when entrusted service rests on recognized reliability.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.THE THREAD
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.The Hebrew word behind “faith” here is אֱמוּנָה (emunah), the same root-word family as the keepers’ “faithfulness” in Chronicles. Here trust is what a person lives by; there it is the steadiness on which a community’s threshold rests.
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