What Does 2 Chronicles 24:8 Mean in the King James?
And at the king’s commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
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 first act of receiving is making a place for what has not yet arrived.
THE MEANING
A direction becomes concrete: a chest is prepared and placed at the threshold of the LORD’s house, ready for what people bring. Shared care takes shape as a visible place to receive.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that provision begins only when people bring something: the place to receive is prepared first.
THE ROOT
וַיִּתְּנוּ
vayyittenu
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
to give, set, place
“set” in this verse is vayyittenu. The verb for setting the chest shares its root with giving. The receiving point is already part of the gift: someone first gives it a place.
ALSO GROWS
mattan: gift, present
מַתָּן
The chest is set in place for gifts to be gathered; placement and giving share the same root.
mattanah: gift
מַתָּנָה
The word for a gift grows from the same root as the act of placing the chest, joining the prepared place with what will be given.
שַׁעַר
sha'ar
GROWS FROM
שער
sh-ʿ-r
gate, entrance
“gate” in this verse is sha'ar. The word-family includes both the opening and the one who tends it. The chest stands at an attended threshold, making the invitation to contribute visible where people enter.
ALSO GROWS
she'arim: gates
שְׁעָרִים
The plural keeps the image of a public threshold, a place people pass through.
sho'er: gatekeeper
שׁוֹעֵר
The gate and its keeper belong to the same word-family, showing the entrance as a tended point of access.
THE PATTERN
A shared work becomes supportable when provision is given a deliberate place and people can contribute to it.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.THE THREAD
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.The same Hebrew noun אָרוֹן (aron, chest) names the container set beside the altar on the route into the LORD’s house. This parallel shows the chest as a prepared receiving place for what people bring.
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