What Does 2 Chronicles 29:19 Mean in the King James?
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar 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
What has been cast aside can still be prepared, set apart, and brought back into place.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to the part of you that has been cast aside: rejection does not cancel the possibility of being prepared, set apart, and brought back into presence. Restoration appears as visible nearness, with the vessels standing before the altar.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being discarded means I am permanently unusable.
THE ROOT
הִזְנִיחַ
hizniach
GROWS FROM
זנח
to reject, cast off, or abandon
English can make “cast away” sound like a final verdict, but זנח names an act of rejection. Here that act does not determine the vessels’ last place: they are prepared and stand before the altar.
ALSO GROWS
zānaḥ: to reject or cast off
זָנַח
This is the basic verb behind the verse’s “cast away,” naming rejection as something done to the vessels.
yiznaḥ: will cast off
יִזְנַח
The same root appears in Psalm 77:7, where the speaker asks whether the LORD will cast off forever; the restored vessels show that being cast off need not be the final condition.
הֵכִינוּ
hekhinu
GROWS FROM
כון
to be firm, established, or made ready
“prepared” in this verse is hekhinu. The root carries the sense of establishing something in readiness. The vessels are not merely recovered; they are made ready for a place and purpose again.
ALSO GROWS
hekin: to prepare or make ready
הֵכִין
This verb shows preparation as bringing something into a usable state.
makhon: a fixed place or foundation
מָכוֹן
The related sense of an established place echoes the vessels’ renewed placement before the altar.
הִקְדַּשְׁנוּ
hiqdashnu
GROWS FROM
קדש
to set apart as distinct
“sanctified” in this verse is hiqdashnu. The same root gives both “set apart” and “sanctuary.” The vessels are not only ready for use; they are set apart and brought into relation with the set-apart place before the altar.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: set apart
קָדוֹשׁ
This familiar branch names the condition the vessels now share.
miqdash: sanctuary, a set-apart place
מִקְדָּשׁ
The shared root links the vessels’ being set apart with their place before the altar.
THE PATTERN
What has been set aside or made unclean can be prepared, cleansed, and restored to sacred use.
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.THE THREAD
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?The Hebrew root behind “cast away” here appears again in the question “Will the Lord cast off for ever?” The restored vessels give that root a striking answer: cast off describes what happened to them, not where they must remain.
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