What Does 2 Chronicles 1:6 Mean in the King James?
And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
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 uses the same root for Solomon’s going up, his offering, and the burnt offering itself: the whole scene is one ascent.
THE MEANING
The verse places you inside an image of approach: Solomon goes up, and a thousand offerings go up before the LORD. The altar stands at the tent of meeting, so the ascent happens within an encounter. The scale is immense, but its center is what is brought before the LORD.
THE ROOT
עָלָה
ʿālāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
To go up, rise, or ascend; in a causative form, to make something go up.
“went up / offered / burnt offering” in this verse is ʿālāh. English divides this into “went up,” “offered,” and “burnt offerings,” while Hebrew repeats the root עלה across all three: Solomon goes up, makes the offerings go up, and the offering itself is an ʿolah, named with the same root of ascent. The verse binds the person, the act, and the offering into one upward movement.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: To go up or ascend.
עָלָה
The verb describes Solomon’s movement to the altar and then his making the offerings ascend.
ʿōlāh: A burnt offering, named from the root of ascending.
עֹלָה
The offering carries the same upward motion as Solomon’s journey.
maʿālāh: An ascent, step, or degree.
מַעֲלָה
This branch keeps the root’s sense of upward movement visible beyond the act of offering.
מוֹעֵד
moʿēd
GROWS FROM
יעד
To appoint or designate; מוֹעֵד refers to an appointed time or meeting place.
The Hebrew phrase is אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד, the “tent of meeting.” Its root carries the sense of a set appointment, locating the ascent at a place of encounter with the LORD.
ALSO GROWS
yāʿad: To appoint or designate.
יָעַד
It gives the meeting place its sense of an encounter set apart for meeting.
moʿēd: An appointed time or meeting place.
מוֹעֵד
It shows that the altar stands within a place defined by meeting, not only by sacrifice.
THE PATTERN
Scripture pictures an offering as something that comes before God in ascent, through altar smoke, fragrant sacrifice, or self-giving.
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.THE THREAD
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.The same Hebrew ascent-root binds Noah’s altar to Solomon’s: in both verses the text uses the root of “go up” for offering burnt offerings. That repeated word-shape makes ascent part of the offering itself.
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