What Does 2 Chronicles 2:16 Mean in the King James?
And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
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 timber’s route is an ascent into Jerusalem, whose name carries the language of wholeness.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to you now as a complete movement: timber is cut at its source, floated across the sea, and carried upward to Jerusalem, whose name carries the sense of shalom, wholeness. It names every stage of the arrival: source, water, harbor, ascent, destination. The making of a dwelling takes shape through the work of carrying separate materials into place.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole or complete; the name carries the language of shalom, wholeness.
Jerusalem is more than the destination’s label: its name carries shalom, with a dual ending that evokes twofold wholeness. The wood’s upward journey ends at a place whose name holds the shape of wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
The destination’s name carries the sense of wholeness into the route.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the place-name’s wholeness tangible as a state of completion.
תַּעֲלֶה
ta'aleh
GROWS FROM
עלה
To go up or ascend; in this form, to bring something up.
“carry up” in this verse is ta'aleh. The Hebrew keeps the upward direction inside the verb, while English carry can sound like movement alone. The same root names an ascent and an offering that goes up, connecting the timber’s physical raising with the language of ascent without equating the timber with a sacrifice.
ALSO GROWS
alah: To go up, ascend.
עָלָה
The verb names the direction of the timber’s journey from Joppa to Jerusalem.
olah: A burnt offering, literally that which goes up.
עֹלָה
The same root links carrying upward with the language of something rising.
נְבִיאֵם
nevi'em
GROWS FROM
בוא
To come or enter; in the causative form, to bring or cause to come.
“bring” in this verse is nevi'em. The Hebrew verb centers the timber’s arrival: it is caused to come to its destination. Ezra 3:7 repeats this root for cedar brought from Lebanon to Joppa, revealing the route as a recurring movement of materials toward a dwelling.
ALSO GROWS
bo: To come, enter.
בּוֹא
The root’s basic movement is arrival, which gives the timber’s journey a clear destination.
hevi: To bring, cause to come.
הֵבִיא
This causative form makes the people’s role in the timber’s arrival explicit.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling takes shape when separate materials or lives are brought into a shared structure.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.Ezra 3:7 repeats בוא (bo, to come or enter; in its causative form, to bring) and nearly the same route from Lebanon to Joppa. The repeated movement makes the arrival of materials part of the pattern by which a dwelling takes shape.
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