What Does 2 Chronicles 10:12 Mean in the King James?

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.

2 Chronicles 10:12 · 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 appointed day turns the king’s word from a promise into a meeting the whole people must now face.

THE MEANING

The waiting interval closes, and you stand at the meeting the spoken word set in motion. What was promised for “the third day” is now present; the encounter turns a private decision into something the whole people will live under.

THE ROOT

דִּבֶּר

dibber

GROWS FROM

דבר

d-b-r

To speak, utter; the root also forms davar, “word” or “matter.”

The king’s “bade” is dibber, from the same root family as davar, “word.” Hebrew lets spoken words and the matter they set in motion sit close together: the order names a day, and that day becomes a gathering.

ALSO GROWS

davar: Word; matter or thing

דָּבָר

The king’s spoken word becomes the matter at hand when the people arrive.

dibbur: Speech or utterance

דִּבּוּר

The return date begins as speech and reaches its consequence in this meeting.

THE PATTERN

A spoken time becomes a meeting point where what was promised must take visible form.

And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

2 Chronicles 10:5 · KJVThe king names the interval, and the people return when it reaches its appointed end.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Genesis 22:4 · KJVOn the named day, what had been ahead comes into view.

Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

Luke 24:7 · KJVThe third day is named as the time when what is spoken becomes visible.

THE THREAD

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 33:6 · KJV

Both verses use the ⁨דבר⁩ family: here the king has spoken a word that brings the people back; in the psalm, the word of the LORD brings the heavens into being. The shared root lets you see speech moving into what is made and met.

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