What Does 2 Chronicles 34:29 Mean in the King James?
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
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
Here, sending is already the first motion of gathering: the king’s reach goes outward so the elders can come together.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you in the moment a summons turns separate voices into a gathered body. The king sends, then gathers Judah and Jerusalem’s elders; the action moves outward and draws the community into one assembly.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׁלַח
vayyishlaḥ
GROWS FROM
ש־ל־ח
sh-l-ḥ
To send, send forth, or release.
“sent” in this verse is vayyishlaḥ. The two verbs are movements in one act: sending outward and gathering inward. The root can also carry the sense of sending away; here its force is dispatch, and that outward movement becomes an assembly.
ALSO GROWS
shilluaḥ: Sending away; dismissal.
שִׁלּוּחַ
This branch keeps the root’s shade of release visible: sending can also mean letting something go outward.
Shiloach: Siloam; “sent.”
שִׁלֹחַ
The name of the pool in John 9:7 preserves the root’s image of something sent forth, a connection that accompanies the verse’s movement from dispatch to gathering.
וַיֶּאֱסֹף
vayye’esof
GROWS FROM
א־ס־ף
ʾ-s-p
To gather, collect, or bring together.
English’s “gathered together” can sound like mere logistics, but אָסַף (asaf) is also the root of ingathering. The elders are drawn into a whole, like scattered produce brought in at harvest.
ALSO GROWS
asif: Ingathering; harvest.
אָסִיף
The harvest sense casts gathering as bringing what is scattered into one collected whole.
asuppah: A gathering or assembly.
אֲסֻפָּה
This noun makes explicit what the verb enacts here: people brought together as an assembly.
THE PATTERN
A shared summons gathers separate people into one assembly.
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.THE THREAD
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:Both verses use אָסַף (asaf), “gather,” with the elders named as the ones brought together. Exodus gives the gathering as a direct summons; here the king’s sending sets that same movement in motion.
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