What Does 2 Chronicles 29:32 Mean in the King James?
And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to 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 offering’s Hebrew name turns a tally of animals into a count of ascents.
THE MEANING
The verse holds worship as a shared, precisely counted offering: seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs are brought to the LORD. The Hebrew word for “burnt offering” also carries the sense of ascent, giving the tally a direction: upward to the LORD.
THE ROOT
עֹלָה
ʿōlāh
GROWS FROM
עלה
ʿ-l-h
Ascend, go up.
The Hebrew noun עֹלָה (ʿōlāh, burnt offering) comes from עלה (ʿ-l-h, ascend or go up). English names what happens to the animals in the fire; Hebrew also carries the offering’s upward direction, so the count is a count of offerings named for rising to the LORD.
ALSO GROWS
ʿālāh: Ascend; go up.
עָלָה
This verb is the root’s basic motion, revealing the upward sense held in עֹלָה (ʿōlāh, burnt offering).
maʿălāh: Ascent; step or degree.
מַעֲלָה
This noun names an ascent or rising step, echoing the upward movement contained in the offering’s name.
THE PATTERN
An offering is named by its movement upward into the presence of God.
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.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.The Hebrew calls this a burnt offering עֹלָה (ʿōlāh), from עלה (ʿ-l-h, ascend), the same root carried by the offering in 2 Chronicles. Leviticus describes the whole offering rising in fire; the verse’s count is therefore a count of offerings whose name holds that ascent.
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