What Does 2 Chronicles 11:13 Mean in the King James?
And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.
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 says the priests and Levites take their stand beside him: people whose name is linked with joining gather from every border into a visible allegiance.
THE MEANING
A shared calling can cross every border and gather people into one visible allegiance. The priests and Levites take their stand beside him; distance does not dissolve the bond that draws them together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that people spread across different regions must be disconnected: the borders remain, but their shared calling draws them together.
THE ROOT
הִתְיַצְּבוּ
hityatzevu
GROWS FROM
יָצַב
yatsav
To stand, take a position, or set in place.
“resorted” in this verse is hityatzevu. The Hebrew describes more than arriving: they position themselves beside him. The root also gives a form meaning to set something in place, so the verse holds both movement toward him and a settled stance.
ALSO GROWS
hityatzev: To take one’s stand or station oneself.
הִתְיַצֵּב
This form makes the gathering an act of positioning, not mere travel.
hitziv: To set, establish, or place something.
הִצִּיב
The same root’s sense of setting in place sharpens the image of people taking a definite position.
הַלְוִיִּם
ha-levi'im
GROWS FROM
לוה
To join, attach, or accompany.
Genesis links Levi’s name with יִלָּוֶה (yillaveh), “will be joined.” Here the Levites come from across Israel to stand beside him, and that joining echoes in the name they carry.
ALSO GROWS
Levi: The name linked in Genesis with being joined.
לֵוִי
The Levites’ name carries the same joining that their gathering makes visible.
yillaveh: “Will be joined” or “will attach,” in Leah’s words in Genesis 29:34.
יִלָּוֶה
This is the joining word Genesis uses to explain Levi’s name, linking the verse’s people with the act of gathering.
THE PATTERN
A shared center gathers people across geographic and social boundaries into visible unity.
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.THE THREAD
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.Genesis links Levi’s name with יִלָּוֶה (yillaveh), “will be joined,” from the root לוה (lavah), “join” or “attach.” In this verse, Levites arrive from all their borders to stand beside him; the joining in their name becomes the action of the sentence.
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