What Does 2 Chronicles 35:7 Mean in the King James?
And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.
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 verb translated “gave” also carries the motion of “raised up”: the king’s gift is lifted from his own holdings and placed within the people’s reach.
THE MEANING
The verse presents shared participation as something provision can make possible: what one person holds can reach the gathered people. The offerings extend to all who are present, so taking part does not depend only on what each person brings.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that everyone must arrive with enough of their own before they can belong gives way here to a picture of provision reaching the whole gathering.
THE ROOT
וַיָּרֶם
wayyārem
GROWS FROM
רום
rum
Rise or be high; in this verb form, raise or lift up.
The wording translated “gave” also carries the motion of lifting up, picturing the gift as raised from the king’s own holdings and extended to the people. The same root forms תְּרוּמָה (terumah, contribution or offering), joining this act of provision to the language of an offering lifted up.
ALSO GROWS
terumah: Contribution or offering.
תְּרוּמָה
This offering word comes from the same root as “raised up,” linking the gift to the image of something lifted and set apart.
marom: Height or heights.
מָרוֹם
It preserves the root’s sense of rising; here, what is raised from the king’s holdings moves into the people’s reach.
THE PATTERN
Shared participation becomes possible when provision moves from one person’s holdings into the hands of the gathered.
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:THE THREAD
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.The verb behind “gave” comes from רום (rum, lift up), and “offering” here renders תְּרוּמָה (terumah, contribution or offering), from the same root. The shared root connects the king’s lifted provision with the scriptural language of a contribution set apart.
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