What Does 2 Chronicles 35:6 Mean in the King James?

So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

2 Chronicles 35:6 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

Consecration becomes shared readiness: the people are set apart, their brothers are made ready, and the LORD’s word takes shape in what they do.

THE MEANING

The verse makes readiness communal: the Passover is killed, the people are set apart, and their brothers are prepared to act according to the LORD’s word. The instruction becomes shared practice through a community made ready to carry it out.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that consecration is only private: here, setting oneself apart is joined to preparing others for shared action.

THE ROOT

קַדְּשׁוּ

qaddeshu

GROWS FROM

קדש

qadash

Set apart; mark as sacred.

“sanctify” in this verse is qaddeshu. The root can name both the set-apartness of a people and the sacredness of a place. Here, being set apart is not only an inward state: it prepares the people for a concrete, shared service.

ALSO GROWS

qodesh: Set-apartness; sacredness.

קֹדֶשׁ

It shows that the people’s consecration belongs to a wider field of things marked for sacred purpose.

miqdash: Sanctuary; sacred place.

מִקְדָּשׁ

The same root can describe a place set apart, linking the people’s consecration with the space and service they prepare for.

הָכִינוּ

hakhinu

GROWS FROM

כון

kun

Be firm or established; make ready.

The command to prepare the brothers carries the sense of making them ready and established for action. A branch of this root names a fixed place, so readiness here is something put in place, not merely intended.

ALSO GROWS

konen: Establish; make firm.

כּוֹנֵן

It brings out the solidity implied in preparing people to carry out the instruction.

makon: Established place; dwelling.

מָכוֹן

This branch shows readiness as something set in place, giving the community a stable footing for what it must do.

THE PATTERN

Readiness is set-apartness made active: it prepares hearts, paths, and people for a received purpose.

For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

Ezra 7:10 · KJVThe prepared heart carries instruction into seeking, doing, and teaching, joining inward direction to shared practice.

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Matthew 3:3 · KJVPreparation clears a path for the Lord’s coming; readiness changes what can be received.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

2 Timothy 2:21 · KJVBeing set apart becomes readiness for action, echoing the consecration that equips people for service.

THE THREAD

That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

2 Chronicles 30:19 · KJV

Both verses use ⁨כון⁩ (kun, “establish; make ready”). In 35:6, readiness equips brothers for a shared Passover action; in 30:19, the same root describes a heart made ready to seek God, even while ritual cleansing remains incomplete.

Read the SDV Bible.

Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.

Get Selah Verse

The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.

Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us