What Does 1 Kings 3:15 Mean in the King James?

And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

1 Kings 3:15 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The verse links Jerusalem and its peace offerings through the language of wholeness, then carries that wholeness to the servants’ table.

THE MEANING

An inward encounter does not stay sealed in sleep: it enters waking life as presence, offering, and a table shared with others. Wholeness reaches beyond the dreamer and the altar to the servants who are fed.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a dream is merely private or unreal: the waking response gives the encounter a public, material form through offerings and a shared feast.

THE ROOT

שְׁלָמִים

shelamim

GROWS FROM

שׁלם

sh-l-m

To be whole, complete, or sound; to bring something to wholeness.

“peace offerings” in this verse is shelamim. The root carries wholeness and completeness beneath the English “peace.” Jerusalem’s name, ⁨יְרוּשָׁלַיִם⁩ (Yerushalayim, the twofold wholeness), carries the same sh-l-m sound-shape; the city and the shelamim meet in a wholeness made visible at the servants’ feast.

ALSO GROWS

shalom: Wholeness, well-being

שָׁלוֹם

This sibling root shows that the offerings’ “peace” reaches beyond the absence of conflict toward a state of wholeness.

shalem: Whole, complete, intact

שָׁלֵם

This form makes the offering’s root meaning concrete: the movement is toward completeness.

THE PATTERN

Wholeness before God becomes visible as food shared with others.

And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

Exodus 24:11 · KJVSeeing God is followed by eating and drinking, joining encounter with a shared meal.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psalm 23:5 · KJVThe table makes provision and abundance visible even in the presence of threat.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

Acts 2:46 · KJVShared food carries gladness from the temple into ordinary homes.

THE THREAD

And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 27:7 · KJV

Deuteronomy names the same offering as ⁨שְׁלָמִים⁩ (shelamim, peace offerings) and joins it to eating and rejoicing before the LORD. Its ⁨שׁלם⁩ (sh-l-m, wholeness) root makes the feast here part of the same movement: wholeness becomes something shared.

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