What Does 2 Chronicles 15:10 Mean in the King James?
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
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 people gather toward Jerusalem, a destination whose name carries the language of wholeness.
THE MEANING
Wholeness takes shape as people gather at a shared center; it is not only an inward condition. The named month and year place this convergence in a concrete time and place.
THE ROOT
וַיִּקָּבְצוּ
wayyiqqavtsu
GROWS FROM
קבץ
q-b-ts
gather, collect, assemble
“gathered themselves together” in this verse is wayyiqqavtsu. The verb carries the movement of separate people being drawn into one assembly. English says they gathered, while the Hebrew root also opens the image of scattered pieces collected into a shared place.
ALSO GROWS
qibbēts: gathered, collected
קִבֵּץ
This active form shows the root drawing what is separate into a collection, the movement at the heart of the verse.
niqbaṣ: was gathered, assembled
נִקְבַּץ
This form presents people as becoming an assembly, echoing the verse’s picture of many gathered together.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
whole, complete; the wholeness expressed by shalom
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries the language of shalom with a dual ending: twofold wholeness. The gathering is anchored in a place whose name gives the assembly a direction toward shared wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This branch lets Jerusalem’s name resonate with the wholeness toward which the gathered people are oriented.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the place-name’s wholeness concrete: the gathering converges at a name that carries completeness.
THE PATTERN
A gathering makes shared belonging visible by drawing people into one place.
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.THE THREAD
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.Psalm 107:3 uses the same Hebrew root, קבץ (q-b-ts), for gathering people from every direction. Here that same gathering movement converges at Jerusalem, making scattered belonging visible in one place.
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