What Does 2 Chronicles 29:13 Mean in the King James?

And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

2 Chronicles 29:13 · KJV

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 names turn a roll call into a pattern: restoration gathers people, holds remembrance, and receives service as a gift.

THE MEANING

This passage speaks now of restoration as shared work: distinct people bring their service into one task. The names themselves carry gathering, remembrance, and gift, so the work is neither anonymous nor self-made.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that restoration depends on one conspicuous person gives way to a named company carrying the work together.

THE ROOT

אָסָף

Asaph

GROWS FROM

אסף

ʾ-s-p

Gather, collect.

Asaph’s name carries the action of gathering. The next verse uses this same root for the people who gather their brothers, so the name echoes the shared work that follows.

ALSO GROWS

asaph: Gather, collect.

אָסַף

This verb makes the name’s gathering sense concrete and connects it to the group’s work in the next verse.

asif: Ingathering, harvest.

אָסִיף

This branch carries gathering into a collective event, echoing the way the named workers belong to a shared task.

זְכַרְיָה

Zekharyah

GROWS FROM

זכר

z-k-r

Remember, call to mind.

Zechariah means “Yah remembers.” In this list, remembrance is carried in a person’s name, giving the roll call a dimension English leaves hidden.

ALSO GROWS

zakar: Remember, recall.

זָכַר

This is the verb within Zechariah’s name; it makes remembrance part of the name’s nature.

zikkaron: Remembrance, memorial.

זִכָּרוֹן

A memorial holds something in remembrance, showing how this root can make memory present and shared.

מַתַּנְיָה

Mattanyah

GROWS FROM

נתן

n-t-n

Give, set, place.

Mattaniah means “gift of Yah,” carrying the root of giving into this list of temple servants. The root also means to set or place, so the name holds both gift and its place in shared work.

ALSO GROWS

mattan: Gift.

מַתָּן

This noun carries the root’s giving sense into Mattaniah’s name.

nathan: Give, set, place.

נָתַן

The root’s range joins giving with setting or placing, making the name’s gift sense part of a larger picture of provision.

THE PATTERN

The work that restores a shared whole is carried by distinct people whose contributions meet in one task.

And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;

Exodus 31:6 · KJVThe work is entrusted to named collaborators, with different contributions serving one shared task.

And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

Acts 6:5 · KJVA shared need is met through a company of named people chosen to serve.

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:18 · KJVEach member has a place within a whole that depends on many distinct parts.

THE THREAD

And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 29:15 · KJV

Asaph’s name carries the root ⁨אסף⁩ (ʾ-s-p), meaning “gather”; the next verse uses that same root when the people gather their brothers. The name and action echo each other, linking the roll call to the gathering that follows.

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