What Does 1 Chronicles 9:31 Mean in the King James?
And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.
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
Mattithiah’s assigned pan-work is held in בֶּאֱמוּנָה (be’emunah, steadfast trust), so the text marks reliability as the substance of the office.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks into your present: a community is sustained by ordinary work entrusted to a person and carried steadily. What is made in the pans matters because others receive its fruit.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that only visible or elevated work carries weight: the verse gives a named place to the person responsible for pan-made offerings.
THE ROOT
בֶּאֱמוּנָה
be'emunah
GROWS FROM
אָמַן
ʾāman
To be firm, steady, or reliable; to support or confirm.
“had the set office” in this verse is be'emunah. The KJV renders Mattithiah’s role as a “set office”; the Hebrew phrase בֶּאֱמוּנָה (be’emunah, in steadiness or trustworthiness) also conveys the reliable care within that charge. The root אָמַן (ʾāman, to be firm or steady) links that trustworthiness to אָמֵן (amen, firm; truly), joining the entrusted work to the idea of what stands firm.
ALSO GROWS
emunah: Steadiness, trustworthiness, faithfulness.
אֱמוּנָה
This is the quality expressed in Mattithiah’s charge: dependable care over the pan-work.
amen: Firm; truly; let it be so.
אָמֵן
The familiar response grows from the same root of firmness, linking settled words with steady responsibility.
ne'eman: Reliable, trustworthy.
נֶאֱמָן
This branch names the character of someone whose entrusted work can be depended on.
THE PATTERN
A community is sustained through ordinary work entrusted to people who carry it reliably.
In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.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.THE THREAD
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.Psalm 37:3 uses אֱמוּנָה (emunah, steadiness or trustworthiness), the same Hebrew root present in Mattithiah’s charge. The KJV renders the Psalm’s phrase as “verily thou shalt be fed”; beneath it, the shared root connects steady trust with nourishment.
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