What Does 2 Chronicles 36:7 Mean in the King James?
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
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 vessels enter Babylon’s temple as a visible claim over what once stood in the LORD’s house.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now to the sight of what is sacred removed from its place and placed under another power. The vessels move from the LORD’s house into Babylon’s temple, so their new location becomes a claim. The verse leaves that displacement exposed.
THE ROOT
הֵבִיא
hevi
GROWS FROM
בוא
bo
To come or enter; in this verb form, to bring or cause to come.
The Hebrew verb presents the vessels as brought into Babylon: their arrival there is part of the verse’s force. The English “carried” holds the removal in view, while בוא (bo, come or enter) also lets us see their entry into a new house.
ALSO GROWS
bo: Come or enter.
בּוֹא
The root makes the vessels’ arrival in Babylon part of the action.
mavo: Entrance or entry.
מָבוֹא
This related word brings the idea of entering into focus as the vessels cross into Babylon’s temple.
וַיִּתְּנֵם
vayyittenem
GROWS FROM
נתן
natan
To give, set, or place.
The verb translated “put” comes from נתן (natan), a root that also means to give. The vessels are physically set in the Babylonian temple, and the root’s wider range makes that placement sound like an assignment to a new setting.
ALSO GROWS
natan: Give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This is the root behind the act of placing the vessels in Babylon’s temple.
mattanah: Gift or given thing.
מַתָּנָה
This related noun carries the root’s sense of something given, sharpening the language of transfer around the vessels.
בָּבֶל
Bavel
GROWS FROM
בלל
balal
To mix, mingle, or confound; Genesis links Babel with confusion through wordplay.
“Babylon” in this verse is Bavel. Genesis 11 links Babel with בלל (balal, to confound) through a wordplay on the name. That scriptural echo colors the destination as a place of mixing and confusion, where the vessels from the LORD’s house are placed in another temple.
ALSO GROWS
balal: Mix, mingle, or confound.
בָּלַל
Genesis 11 uses this wordplay to connect Babel’s name with confusion.
Bavel: Babel or Babylon; the name is linked with confusion by Genesis’s wordplay.
בָּבֶל
The name marks the destination where the vessels are set.
THE PATTERN
A house that receives a vessel makes its claim over the vessel visible through placement and use.
Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;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.THE THREAD
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.The Hebrew behind “carried to Babylon” shares בוא (bo, come or enter) with the verb for bringing the vessels in this verse. Jeremiah names their stay in Babylon as temporary and speaks of their return, opening the arrival here into a movement that does not end at Babylon.
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