What Does 2 Chronicles 19:3 Mean in the King James?
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
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
Goodness is found in the paired movement of clearing rival devotion and setting the heart to seek God.
THE MEANING
Good things are found in you; they show themselves in what you clear away and in a heart made ready to seek God. Seeking is active inquiry, not a distant wish. The verse holds the clearing and the reorientation together as signs of what is good in you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that one rebuke or failure tells the whole truth about you.
THE ROOT
לִדְרוֹשׁ
lidrosh
GROWS FROM
דרש
Darash (דָּרַשׁ) means to seek, inquire, or consult.
The verse’s “seek” carries the sense of active inquiry, not simply longing from a distance. The heart turns toward God as one who is sought and inquired of.
ALSO GROWS
midrash: Inquiry, interpretation, or exposition arising from inquiry
מִדְרָשׁ
This branch shows seeking as engaged attention: the heart is turned toward understanding, not merely wishing.
derishah: Inquiry or investigation
דְּרִישָׁה
Its sense of deliberate investigation brings out the directedness in a heart prepared to seek God.
וַהֲכִינוֹתָ
va-hakhinota
GROWS FROM
כון
Kun (כון) means to be firm, establish, or set in place; by extension, to prepare.
“Prepared” describes more than a passing intention: the heart is set in position toward seeking God. The root holds readiness and firmness together, so preparation is an inward orientation.
ALSO GROWS
makhon: A fixed place or dwelling
מָכוֹן
This branch extends the root’s sense of being established: the heart becomes a place set toward seeking God.
nakhon: Established, ready
נָכוֹן
Its sense of readiness clarifies the state of the heart described in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Seeking God gathers the heart toward God as rival claims are cleared away.
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.THE THREAD
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.Psalm 119:10 uses the same root, דרש (darash, seek or inquire), in “sought,” showing the active seeking carried by this verse. Its plea not to wander reveals the opposite of a prepared heart: attention pulled away from its direction.
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