What Does 2 Chronicles 31:6 Mean in the King James?

And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.

2 Chronicles 31:6 · KJV

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THE KEY

What is set apart to God takes visible form in heaps of real provision.

THE MEANING

Here, devotion has material weight: oxen, sheep, and dedicated goods gather as visible abundance. The heaps make the offering public and countable, not an invisible intention.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that devotion is purely inward and leaves no visible trace: here, what is consecrated has quantity and a public form.

THE ROOT

הַמְקֻדָּשִׁים

hamqudashim

GROWS FROM

קדש

q-d-sh

Set apart; marked off as belonging to God.

“consecrated” in this verse is hamqudashim. English can make consecration sound like a status; this root points to what is set apart, and the verse places those things beside oxen and sheep, then stacks them. The set-apart becomes visible in a gathered store.

ALSO GROWS

qadosh: Set apart

קָדוֹשׁ

This branch names the quality carried by the consecrated goods in the verse.

qodesh: Set-apartness; a holy thing

קֹדֶשׁ

This branch links the consecrated things to what is designated as belonging to the LORD.

מַעֲשֵׂר

ma'aser

GROWS FROM

עשר

ʿ-sh-r

Ten; the word names a tenth, a counted share.

The tithe’s own name keeps its numerical shape: it is a defined share of the whole, not an undefined surplus. Here that counted portion appears alongside consecrated goods, joining proportion and dedication in one gathered scene.

ALSO GROWS

ʿeser: Ten

עֶשֶׂר

The tithe’s name carries the count that distinguishes a portion from the whole.

ʿasiri: Tenth

עֲשִׂירִי

This related form makes the proportion explicit: a counted tenth is what the verse calls a tithe.

THE PATTERN

What is gathered as set apart becomes shared provision that can meet real needs.

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

Deuteronomy 26:12 · KJVThe gathered tithe becomes food for people who might otherwise lack provision.

And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

Acts 4:35 · KJVWhat the community brings together is distributed according to each person’s need.

But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

2 Corinthians 8:14 · KJVOne community’s abundance becomes provision for another’s lack, with supply moving both ways.

THE THREAD

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.

Leviticus 27:30 · KJV

The Hebrew ma’aser (⁨מַעֲשֵׂר⁩, tithe) and qodesh (⁨קֹדֶשׁ⁩, set-apartness) meet here as they do in the verse’s tithe of consecrated things. The heap is a counted share already marked as belonging to the LORD.

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