What Does 2 Chronicles 15:11 Mean in the King James?

And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 15:11 · 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 root ties sacrifice to the altar: what is held as spoil becomes worship through slaughter.

THE MEANING

The verse places abundance and cost side by side: the spoil becomes a sacrifice to the LORD, counted as seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. Giving here is material, measured in living creatures surrendered. The text leaves both the scale and the cost in view.

THE ROOT

וַיִּזְבְּחוּ

vayyizbeḥu

GROWS FROM

זבח

z-b-ḥ

to slaughter, especially as sacrifice

“offered” in this verse is vayyizbeḥu. The verb comes from ⁨זבח⁩ (z-b-ḥ), the root of slaughter and sacrifice. The same root forms ⁨זֶבַח⁩ (zebaḥ), a sacrifice, and ⁨מִזְבֵּחַ⁩ (mizbēaḥ), an altar, the place is named by the act performed there. The spoil is not merely handed over; the animals are killed as an altar offering.

ALSO GROWS

zebaḥ: sacrifice

זֶבַח

The noun names the offering made through the act described in this verse.

mizbēaḥ: altar

מִזְבֵּחַ

The altar carries the same root, linking the place of offering to the slaughter that takes place there.

THE PATTERN

Sacrifice makes giving visible, whether it is livestock offered at an altar or thanksgiving offered with the lips.

And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 8:63 · KJVThe offering is counted in animals, making the scale and material cost of the sacrifice visible.

Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

Psalm 50:14 · KJVThe verse names thanksgiving as something offered to God, extending sacrifice beyond livestock.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Hebrews 13:15 · KJVPraise becomes a sacrifice brought to God, carried by the lips rather than animals.

THE THREAD

Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

Psalm 50:14 · KJV

The Hebrew noun ⁨זֶבַח⁩ (zebaḥ), meaning sacrifice, comes from the same ⁨זבח⁩ (z-b-ḥ) root as the verb in this verse. Psalm 50 uses that sacrifice word for thanksgiving, opening another form of offering while leaving the oxen and sheep here fully present.

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