What Does 2 Chronicles 30:4 Mean in the King James?
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
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 “thing” is דָּבָר (dābār, matter or word): what is spoken becomes good in the shared sight of the king and the assembly.
THE MEANING
A matter comes into shared view: the king sees it as good, and so does the whole assembly. Its goodness is recognized across both authority and the gathered community.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
dābār
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
d-b-r
To speak; as a noun, a spoken word, matter, or affair.
Hebrew uses דָּבָר for both a word and a matter at hand. Calling it “the thing” keeps its link to what has been spoken and is now seen as good by the whole assembly.
ALSO GROWS
dibbēr: spoke; to speak
דִּבֵּר
The spoken form shares the root of the matter being considered, linking what is said with what is done.
devarim: words; matters
דְּבָרִים
The plural carries both senses, showing how spoken words and matters belong to the same root family.
וַיִּיטַב
wayyiṭab
GROWS FROM
י־ט־ב
y-t-b
To be good, go well, or be pleasing.
The verb describes the matter as going well in the sight of both the king and the assembly. “Pleased” carries not only satisfaction but a shared judgment of goodness.
ALSO GROWS
heytiv: to do well; to benefit
הֵיטִיב
This form shows the root’s sense of goodness as something that takes effect in how a matter goes.
meitav: the best; the finest
מֵיטָב
This branch carries the same root’s sense of what is judged good.
THE PATTERN
A matter gains shared standing when it is seen as good across leadership and the gathered people.
And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:THE THREAD
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.Both verses use דָּבָר (dābār), which can mean a spoken word or a matter at hand. Deuteronomy shows this word as what sustains life; here the “thing” is a matter whose goodness is recognized in shared view.
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