What Does 2 Chronicles 35:1 Mean in the King James?
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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 word for Passover names the act of sparing, yet here that passage is embodied in an offering that is killed.
THE MEANING
Deliverance here is a shared, tangible reality: it is kept before the LORD in Jerusalem and embodied in a slaughtered Passover offering on a fixed day. At the beginning of the year, memory takes shape through a place, a body, and a marked time.
THE ROOT
פֶּסַח
pesach
GROWS FROM
פסח
p-s-ḥ
To pass over or spare.
The name of the rite is bound to the act of sparing: Passover carries deliverance in its very name. Here that deliverance is not abstract; the Passover is both kept and slaughtered.
ALSO GROWS
pasach: To pass over or spare.
פָּסַח
In Exodus 12:13, this verb describes the LORD passing over the marked houses, showing the action held within the name.
pesach: The Passover rite and offering.
פֶּסַח
The same root names both the act of sparing and the offering slaughtered in this verse.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Wholeness, completeness.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness) in its name and ends in the dual form -ayim: the two wholenesses. The Passover is kept in a place whose name holds wholeness as its horizon.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
This branch brings the name’s sense of wholeness into the place where the Passover is kept.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
The shared root links the city’s name to completeness, giving the setting a meaning beyond geography.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance becomes shared memory through a marked, embodied act repeated in time.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.THE THREAD
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.The verb פָּסַח (pasach, pass over or spare) is the root behind פֶּסַח (pesach, Passover), the rite named and slaughtered in the present verse. Exodus shows the name’s movement directly: the marked houses are spared as destruction passes over them.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us