What Does 1 Chronicles 9:26 Mean in the King James?
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
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 gatekeepers’ “set office” rests on emunah: the steadiness that makes entrusted care part of the house of God’s sacred life.
THE MEANING
The work in front of you can be quiet and fixed, yet the verse places it within the care of what is sacred. These gatekeepers stand over the rooms and stores because dependable presence is part of how the house is held.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that sacred service counts only when it is visible at the center: the verse places gatekeeping and care of stored resources within the house of God.
THE ROOT
בֶּאֱמוּנָה
be’emunah
GROWS FROM
אמן
ʾ-m-n
To be firm, steady, or reliable.
“set office” in this verse is be’emunah. The Hebrew phrase is be’emunah, “in steadiness”; it locates these gatekeepers by the quality that makes their charge dependable. The same root can describe something affirmed as firm and a person proven reliable, so their office carries the sense of standing steady within an entrusted task.
ALSO GROWS
amen: Firmly so; let it be established.
אָמֵן
This branch makes the root’s sense of firmness audible in an affirmation.
ne’eman: Reliable, trustworthy, steady.
נֶאֱמָן
This branch describes the dependable quality required when a person is entrusted with a charge.
THE PATTERN
Entrusted things are sustained through people who remain steady in their charge.
That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.THE THREAD
And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.The same Hebrew word, בֶּאֱמוּנָה (be’emunah, in steadiness), describes the Levites bringing offerings and tithes into the storehouses. Here it describes Levites overseeing those stores: the same steadiness carries provision in and keeps watch over it once stored.
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