What Does 2 Chronicles 29:17 Mean in the King James?

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

2 Chronicles 29:17 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

Setting apart moves through measured stages: reaching the porch on day eight is part of the work, while the house is complete on day sixteen.

THE MEANING

The verse gives your present work a measured shape: setting apart reaches the threshold before the whole house is complete. Progress at the threshold is real, and completion has its own time.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that reaching a threshold means the whole work must already be finished.

THE ROOT

לְקַדֵּשׁ

leqaddēš

GROWS FROM

ק־ד־שׁ

Set apart, dedicate, consecrate.

“sanctify” in this verse is leqaddēš. The same seed appears in the verb for setting apart, the word for set-apartness, and the word for sanctuary. The verse links the ongoing work to the house’s identity as a space dedicated to the LORD.

ALSO GROWS

qōdeš: Set-apartness; something set apart.

קֹדֶשׁ

It names the quality the work of sanctifying brings into view.

qādōš: Set apart.

קָדוֹשׁ

It describes the state of what is dedicated to God.

miqdāš: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.

מִקְדָּשׁ

It joins the act in this verse to the house as a dedicated space.

THE PATTERN

Setting apart unfolds through deliberate acts and can continue until it reaches the whole space or person.

And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.

Exodus 40:9 · KJVThe tabernacle and everything in it receive setting-apart through a defined act of anointing.

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Hebrews 10:14 · KJVCompletion and sanctification appear together, holding the finished work alongside the process of being set apart.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 · KJVSetting apart reaches toward the whole person, just as the temple’s work extends from the porch through the house.

THE THREAD

And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.

Exodus 40:9 · KJV

Exodus 40:9 uses the same Hebrew root, ⁨ק־ד־שׁ⁩ (q-d-sh, set apart), for hallowing the tabernacle and calling it holy. Together, the verses link the act of setting apart with the space that carries that identity.

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