What Does 2 Chronicles 31:13 Mean in the King James?
And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
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 root beneath “overseers” ties authority to attention: these are people appointed to attend to the work.
THE MEANING
This verse shows shared responsibility moving through named people: the overseers serve beneath two leaders, under the king’s command and the ruler of the house of God. Each layer is visible and entrusted with a place in the work. The verse speaks now wherever a shared charge is carried by a team.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that meaningful work depends on one indispensable person: here, many named overseers carry the charge within an ordered structure.
THE ROOT
פְּקִידִים
peqidim
GROWS FROM
פקד
paqad
To attend to, appoint, muster, or visit.
The English “overseers” can sound like a title defined only by authority. Its root also carries the sense of attending to a charge: oversight is an appointment to give the work one’s attention. The same root can describe a visitation, opening oversight into active regard.
ALSO GROWS
paqīd: An appointed official or overseer.
פָּקִיד
This related noun names a person assigned to attend to a responsibility, as these men are.
pequddah: A charge, office, oversight, or visitation.
פְּקֻדָּה
It links an assigned responsibility with the act of attending to it, showing the work inside the title “overseer.”
miphqad: A muster or numbering.
מִפְקָד
This branch connects the root with gathering people into an ordered count, another way an entrusted charge becomes visible.
THE PATTERN
A shared charge is made durable by appointing trusted people to defined places of oversight.
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.THE THREAD
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?The verb translated “visitest” comes from פקד (paqad), “attend to” or “visit”, the same root beneath “overseers” here. Psalm 8 opens oversight into attentive regard: the charge is something a person is present to.
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