What Does 1 Kings 9:19 Mean in the King James?
And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
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 Hebrew makes desire an attachment that eventually appears as a landscape of storage, movement, force, and construction.
THE MEANING
Your desire does not remain private: it becomes the stores you keep, the means of movement and force you gather, and the things you build across your reach. Longing is also attachment, the shape of what you bind your effort to. The verse lets you read a life by the landscape its desire makes.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that desire is only an inward feeling. This verse shows longing taking visible form in stores, transport, force, and construction.
THE ROOT
חָשַׁק
chashaq
GROWS FROM
חשק
chashaq
To cling or attach oneself to; to desire or set affection on.
“desired” in this verse is chashaq. The root carries attachment inside the word “desire.” In this verse, what Solomon is attached to becomes visible in what he builds.
ALSO GROWS
chesheq: Desire, delight, or attachment.
חֵשֶׁק
This noun names what the longing takes aim at in the verse.
chashaq: To cling to, set affection on, or desire.
חָשַׁק
The verb can describe attachment to a person; here that attachment takes shape in projects and structures.
לִבְנוֹת
libnot
GROWS FROM
בנה
banah
To build, construct, or establish.
“build” in this verse is libnot. The verse moves from longing to construction: desire becomes something that can occupy space and organize a domain. The root connects the act of building with the structure that results.
ALSO GROWS
banah: To build or establish.
בָּנָה
This is the root’s basic action, made concrete by the cities and projects in the verse.
binyan: A building, structure, or construction.
בִּנְיָן
This related form names the built result, showing how an inward attachment becomes an outward order.
THE PATTERN
Desire becomes visible in what it builds, and what gets built reveals what that desire is attached to.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:THE THREAD
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.Both passages use בנה (banah, “build”). The psalm adds a measure beyond a city’s scale: its building and keeping depend on the LORD.
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