What Does 2 Chronicles 35:16 Mean in the King James?
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
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 service’s “prepared” shape comes from a root meaning “to be established”: remembrance becomes a settled, shared act.
THE MEANING
Passover is kept, offerings rise upon the LORD’s altar, and the command gathers the work into one service. Remembrance takes visible form through service given a shared, stable shape.
THE ROOT
וַתִּכּוֹן
vattikkon
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To become firm, be established, or be set in place.
“prepared” in this verse is vattikkon. The Hebrew word carries the sense of readiness as firmness: the service is established in place. Passover and the offerings are gathered into a settled arrangement.
ALSO GROWS
nakhon: Firm, established, ready.
נָכוֹן
The service’s readiness has the character of something made steady and ready for its purpose.
makon: A fixed place, dwelling, or foundation.
מָכוֹן
This branch connects being established with having a place: the service is given a form in which its acts can take place.
עֲבוֹדַת
avodat
GROWS FROM
עבד
avad
To serve or work.
The word for service grows from the same root as serving and servant. Here service is visible in the work of keeping Passover and bringing offerings, joining remembrance to acts of service.
ALSO GROWS
avad: To serve or work.
עָבַד
The root’s action is carried out in the keeping of Passover and the offering of sacrifices.
eved: A servant.
עֶבֶד
This branch ties service to the one who serves, giving the word a personal and enacted dimension.
THE PATTERN
Shared worship takes shape when remembrance and offering are prepared as coordinated service.
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.Let all things be done decently and in order.THE THREAD
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.“Prepared” here and “fixed” there share the Hebrew root כון (kun), meaning to be established or made firm. In this verse the service is set in place; in the psalm the heart is steady, linking outer readiness with inward constancy.
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