What Does 2 Chronicles 23:9 Mean in the King James?
Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in the house of 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
The house of God is not outside the crisis: its stored weapons pass into the captains’ hands.
THE MEANING
You stand beside an armed transfer: David’s stored spears and shields leave the house of God and pass to the captains. The sacred setting and the weapons’ real violence remain in the same frame.
THE ROOT
וַיִּתֵּן
vayyitten from natan
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, put, or set.
“delivered” in this verse is vayyitten from natan. The Hebrew verb carries the sense of setting something into another’s hands, not only handing it over. The weapons move from storage into the captains’ care, ready for use.
ALSO GROWS
mattanah: Gift
מַתָּנָה
This noun from the same root makes giving a transfer into another’s keeping, echoing the weapons’ movement to the captains.
nethinim: Those given; a group of temple servants
נְתִינִים
This temple-related word shares the give/set root, linking the verse’s setting with the movement of something held there into service.
דָּוִד
Dāwîḏ
GROWS FROM
דוד
Beloved or kinsman; the related common noun can also mean paternal uncle.
The D-W-D word family carries beloved and kinship senses beneath the name. Here, “David’s” also marks the weapons’ provenance, carrying a person’s name through their storage and transfer.
ALSO GROWS
dōd: Beloved; also paternal uncle
דּוֹד
This related word gives the name its familiar beloved and kinship resonance.
dōḏîm: Loves or caresses
דּוֹדִים
This form from the same word family appears in Song of Songs 1:2, preserving the association with love.
THE PATTERN
Prepared protection becomes collective when its instruments pass into the hands of people positioned to act.
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.THE THREAD
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.The words “give it me” translate the same root נָתַן (natan, give, set, place) that appears here as “delivered.” In both verses, a weapon kept in a sacred place passes into someone’s hands; here the transfer expands from one sword to a group of captains.
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