What Does 2 Chronicles 29:21 Mean in the King James?
And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on 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
The missing reaches the kingdom, sanctuary, and people together, so it is carried as a communal breach rather than a private fault.
THE MEANING
The verse names a breach across shared governance, the set-apart center, and the people themselves. Repair takes visible, costly form: animals are brought for all three, and the priests act at the altar. The missing touches the whole order of shared life, not only one person’s private conduct.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
That what is wrong in a community belongs only to individuals and leaves its governing order and sacred center untouched.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
ḥaṭṭāʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥṭʾ
to miss, fall short, or go wrong
“sin offering” in this verse is ḥaṭṭāʾt. The Hebrew term carries both the missing and the offering brought in relation to it. The verse directs attention to what is being addressed across the kingdom, sanctuary, and people, as well as to the animals brought to the altar.
ALSO GROWS
chata: to miss, err, or go wrong
חָטָא
It names the underlying action associated with the offering: missing.
chet: a missing or offense
חֵטְא
It names the breach itself, connecting the rite to what has gone wrong.
chatta't: missing; sin offering
חַטָּאת
The same form can name the missing and the offering brought in response to it.
מַמְלָכָה
mamlākāh
GROWS FROM
מלך
mlk
to reign or rule
The word for kingdom grows from the root for ruling. The verse places the breach within the order that governs shared life, alongside the sanctuary and the people.
ALSO GROWS
melekh: king
מֶלֶךְ
The ruler belongs to the same word-family as the kingdom whose condition is addressed.
malakh: to reign or rule
מָלַךְ
The verb makes the governing action audible within the word for kingdom.
mamlākāh: kingdom or realm
מַמְלָכָה
It names the shared domain included in the offering’s scope.
מִקְדָּשׁ
miqdāsh
GROWS FROM
קדש
qdsh
to set apart
The sanctuary’s word carries set-apartness in its seed. Its inclusion shows that what is set apart stands within the same scope as governance and the people.
ALSO GROWS
qadash: to be set apart
קָדַשׁ
The verb names the quality carried within the sanctuary’s word.
qodesh: set-apartness; sacredness
קֹדֶשׁ
It expresses the condition associated with the sanctuary.
miqdāsh: sanctuary
מִקְדָּשׁ
It names the set-apart place included in the verse’s communal scope.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats the missing as something that can belong to a whole people, not only to an individual.
And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;THE THREAD
When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation.Leviticus uses חַטָּאת (chatta’t, missing or sin offering) for both the congregation’s missing and the offering brought in response. The shared word opens the same connection here, where the offering’s reach includes the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah.
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