What Does 2 Chronicles 31:3 Mean in the King James?

He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 31:3 · KJV

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THE KEY

The king’s resources are not outside worship: they are assigned to keep its daily and appointed rhythms alive.

THE MEANING

The verse places the king’s own resources within worship’s structure, sustaining offerings at daily and recurring appointed times. Sacred time and material provision belong together, so worship is not detached from what a community sets aside.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that worship is purely inward or separate from material resources: here, provision sustains the recurring practice itself.

THE ROOT

שַׁבָּתוֹת

shabbatot

GROWS FROM

שבת

cease, stop; come to rest

⁨שַׁבָּתוֹת⁩ (shabbatot, Sabbaths) shares its root with ⁨שָׁבַת⁩ (shavat, to cease): the appointed day carries the idea of stopping within its name. Here, that cessation sits inside a rhythm of provision, alongside daily, monthly, and festival offerings.

ALSO GROWS

vayishbot: he ceased, he rested

וַיִּשְׁבֹּת

In Genesis 2:2, this verb names the cessation that gives the Sabbath its root sense.

shabbaton: a Sabbath observance, a complete rest

שַׁבָּתוֹן

This related form makes the Sabbath’s marked cessation explicit, echoing the recurring Sabbath offerings in the verse.

THE PATTERN

A shared worship rhythm is sustained through provision assigned to its recurring times.

Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

Numbers 28:2 · KJVThe offerings are tied to their due season, showing worship shaped by recurring times.

For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Nehemiah 10:33 · KJVThe verse connects material support with continual offerings and the appointed cycles of Sabbaths, new moons, and feasts.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

1 Corinthians 16:2 · KJVA regular weekly rhythm of setting resources aside links provision to the life of the assembly.

THE THREAD

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Genesis 2:2 · KJV

The Hebrew verb ⁨שָׁבַת⁩ (shavat, to cease) in Genesis shares its root with ⁨שַׁבָּתוֹת⁩ (shabbatot, Sabbaths) here. Genesis names the cessation; this verse shows that the Sabbath rhythm is held within material provision.

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