What Does 2 Chronicles 5:14 Mean in the King James?

So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

2 Chronicles 5:14 · KJV

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

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THE KEY

The LORD’s glory is weight: when it fills the house, even the priests’ ability to stand and serve gives way.

THE MEANING

The verse meets you with a presence that fills the space so completely that even the priests cannot continue their service. The LORD’s glory is not merely a title here; it bears weight, and their bodies register it.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that the holy can always be managed as part of ordinary service: here, the priests cannot keep ministering when the house is filled.

THE ROOT

כָּבוֹד

kavod

GROWS FROM

כבד

k-b-d

To be heavy or weighty.

English “glory” can sound abstract, but kavod carries the sense of weight. The priests’ inability to stand makes that weight bodily: the presence filling the house interrupts what they can do.

ALSO GROWS

kaved: Heavy, weighty.

כָּבֵד

This branch makes the physical sense of kavod audible beneath “glory.”

kibbed: To honor, to treat as weighty.

כִּבֵּד

Honor and weight share a root: what is honored is given weight.

THE PATTERN

When divine weight fills sacred space, human capacity to stand or enter gives way.

And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:35 · KJVThe cloud and the LORD’s glory fill the tabernacle so fully that Moses cannot enter.

So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 8:11 · KJVThe priests again lose the ability to stand and serve when the cloud fills the house.

And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Revelation 15:8 · KJVThe temple fills with God’s glory and power, and no one can enter.

THE THREAD

And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:35 · KJV

The same word kavod, “glory” (⁨כָּבוֹד⁩), appears as the LORD’s glory fills the tabernacle. Moses cannot enter there, just as the priests cannot stand here: the weight of the presence exceeds the body’s capacity to proceed.

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