What Does 2 Chronicles 34:30 Mean in the King James?
And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
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 Hebrew word for “read” also means “call”: the covenant is voiced as a summons to everyone, great and small.
THE MEANING
The covenant’s words are spoken where the whole assembly can hear them. Rank does not decide who is addressed; the reading reaches the great and the small alike.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The idea that the covenant’s words belong only to people with status or special authority gives way before this gathered hearing.
THE ROOT
קָרָא
qārāʾ
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־א
q-r-ʾ
To call, proclaim, or read aloud.
“read” in this verse is qārāʾ. The Hebrew verb for reading also carries the sense of calling. Here the king’s reading is not merely the handling of a text: the words call the gathered people into shared hearing.
ALSO GROWS
miqraʾ: A reading or a convocation, a gathering called together.
מִקְרָא
This branch links voiced words with an assembled people, as the covenant is read in the hearing of everyone gathered.
qeriʾah: A calling or a reading aloud.
קְרִיאָה
It keeps the act of reading close to proclaiming: the words are carried into the ears of the assembly.
THE PATTERN
When covenant words are read aloud to the gathered people, hearing becomes a shared summons across ranks and generations.
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.THE THREAD
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.The same Hebrew verb, קָרָא (qārāʾ), means to read aloud and to call. Deuteronomy names the same shape of hearing: the words are read before all the people, making the reading a summons shared by the whole assembly.
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