What Does 2 Chronicles 3:2 Mean in the King James?
And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
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 Hebrew word for “build” shares its root with “son,” placing the temple’s construction in the language of bringing a household into being.
THE MEANING
This verse places the work of building inside a particular day and year: the beginning has a place in time, not only a finished form. Its word for month comes from the root for newness and renewal, so the work starts within a returning cycle.
THE ROOT
לִבְנוֹת
livnot
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
to build, establish
The root בנה (banah, build) also gives בֵּן (ben, son). The verse’s building language can therefore reach beyond stonework toward what establishes and carries a household forward.
ALSO GROWS
ben: son
בֵּן
The shared root connects construction with the continuation of a household.
binyan: building, structure
בִּנְיָן
This noun names the constructed form that emerges from the action in the verse.
חֹדֶשׁ
ḥōdeš
GROWS FROM
חדש
ḥ-d-š
new, renew
The word for month shares its root with newness and renewal. The date thus places the building’s beginning within a cycle that repeatedly opens anew.
ALSO GROWS
ḥādāš: new
חָדָשׁ
The month’s name carries the sense of a new cycle.
ḥādaš: renew, make new
חָדַשׁ
This branch gives the calendar word a connection to renewal as the work begins.
THE PATTERN
A built dwelling becomes a form through which presence takes up residence among people.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.Psalm 127:1 uses the same Hebrew root בנה (banah, build) for the LORD’s building and human building. It opens this dated beginning further: the structure takes shape in time, while its source reaches beyond the builder’s own hands.
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