What Does 2 Chronicles 29:27 Mean in the King James?

And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:27 · KJV

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This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The burnt offering is named for rising, and at the instant it begins to rise, the song begins too.

THE MEANING

The burnt offering begins on the altar, and at that same moment the LORD’s song begins with trumpets and instruments. What is yielded and what is voiced begin together: worship rises in fire and enters the air as music.

THE ROOT

עֹלָה

ʿolah

GROWS FROM

עלה

ʿ-l-h

Rise, go up, ascend.

The offering’s Hebrew name carries the sense of rising. As the burnt offering begins, the song begins alongside it: ascent in fire and praise in sound occupy the same moment.

ALSO GROWS

ʿālāh: To rise or go up.

עָלָה

This verb is the seed behind the offering’s name and brings the image of ascent into the verse.

maʿalah: An ascent, step, or elevation.

מַעֲלָה

This related word keeps the root’s upward movement visible: the burnt offering is an ascent, not merely an object on the altar.

דָּוִד

Dāwīd

GROWS FROM

דוד

d-w-d

Beloved; the related noun can also mean kinsman.

The verse ties the instruments to David, whose name is linked with belovedness. The sound is carried through a name with a personal, relational resonance.

ALSO GROWS

dōd: Beloved; also a kinsman or uncle.

דּוֹד

This related word carries the beloved sense associated with David’s name.

dōdî: My beloved.

דּוֹדִי

This form makes the root’s affectionate sense explicit, adding resonance to the verse’s reference to David.

THE PATTERN

Scripture joins offering and praise as one act, with what is given and what is voiced rising together.

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.

Numbers 10:10 · KJVTrumpets sound over burnt offerings, making music part of the offering’s beginning.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Psalm 27:6 · KJVThe verse joins sacrifice with singing and praise in the same act.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Hebrews 13:15 · KJVPraise itself is named as an offering, carried by the lips.

THE THREAD

But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Leviticus 1:9 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “burnt sacrifice” here is ⁨עֹלָה⁩ (ʿolah), the same word at the heart of Chronicles’ “burnt offering,” from ⁨עָלָה⁩ (ʿālāh), “rise, go up.” The shared root opens the image further: the offering is an ascent, and in Chronicles its beginning is joined by song.

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