What Does 2 Chronicles 30:19 Mean in the King James?
That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
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 holds a heart set toward God beside unfinished sanctuary purification: the seeking is already real within the incompleteness.
THE MEANING
Your heart can be deliberately directed toward God while your outward state remains short of the sanctuary’s full purification. This verse names both realities at once; the seeking is present within the incompleteness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you must be fully purified before you can turn toward God.
THE ROOT
הֵכִין
hēkîn
GROWS FROM
כון
Be firm or established; make firm, set in place.
“prepareth” in this verse is hēkîn. The verb comes from כון, the root of being established: this heart is set in a direction. The verse lets that inward orientation stand alongside incomplete sanctuary purification, without making either disappear.
ALSO GROWS
nakhon: Established, firm, ready.
נָכוֹן
It shares the sense of a heart made steady in its direction.
makhon: An established place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
It carries the root’s sense of something set in place, echoing the heart’s deliberate orientation.
לִדְרֹשׁ
lidrosh
GROWS FROM
דרש
Seek, inquire after, pursue, or resort to.
“seek” in this verse is lidrosh. Darash holds more than a passing search: it can mean to inquire after or pursue. The related word midrash preserves that sense of inquiry, so the heart here is directed toward seeking God.
ALSO GROWS
midrash: Inquiry, interpretation, or exposition.
מִדְרָשׁ
It grows from the same root and preserves seeking as active inquiry.
derishah: An inquiry or search.
דְּרִישָׁה
It shows that the verse’s seeking carries the force of a continued pursuit.
טָהֳרַת
tahorat
GROWS FROM
טהר
Be clean or pure.
“purification” in this verse is tahorat. The verse names a real standard of sanctuary purity, even as it recognizes a heart turned toward God before that standard is fully met. The root keeps the incompleteness visible without erasing the seeking.
ALSO GROWS
tahor: Clean, pure.
טָהוֹר
It names the state of purity that remains incomplete in the verse.
taharah: Purity, cleanness, or purification.
טָהֳרָה
It is the same root’s noun for the purification the verse says has not been fully attained.
THE PATTERN
Scripture joins seeking God to the heart’s deliberate turning toward him.
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.THE THREAD
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.Psalm 119:2 uses the same Hebrew root, דרש (darash, seek or inquire), and joins it to “the whole heart.” It opens “prepareth his heart” as an inward direction that the psalm also names as seeking.
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