What Does 2 Chronicles 5:3 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
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 feast’s hidden center is convergence: Israel’s men become one assembly by gathering toward the king at the appointed time.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now whenever a shared occasion draws people together: belonging takes visible form in the act of gathering. The feast is not only something they attend; it is also the moment their assembly becomes present around a shared center.
THE ROOT
וַיִּקָּהֲלוּ
wayyiqqāhālû
GROWS FROM
קהל
To assemble or gather as a congregation.
“assembled themselves” in this verse is wayyiqqāhālû. The root names both the act of gathering and the assembly that takes shape through it. The men are not merely arriving at a feast; their convergence makes them a gathered people.
ALSO GROWS
qāhāl: Assembly, congregation.
קָהָל
The noun names the gathered community formed by the action in this verse.
haqhel: Assemble; gather together.
הַקְהֵל
The same root appears in a command to gather men, women, children, and the stranger, showing how a qahal is brought together.
חַג
ḥag
GROWS FROM
חגג
To celebrate or keep a festival.
The feast is linked to the act of keeping a festival, so it carries the sense of an observed occasion, not just a date. Here that occasion gives the gathering its shared time and shape.
ALSO GROWS
ḥag: Feast, festival.
חַג
This is the word used in the verse for the occasion that draws the people together.
ḥāgag: Celebrate a festival; keep a feast.
חָגַג
The verb makes clear that the feast is something the people enact together, not merely a time on the calendar.
THE PATTERN
People become a visible community when they gather in shared time and place.
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.THE THREAD
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:The word “Gather” comes from the same root קהל (qahal) as “assembled” here. Deuteronomy names men, women, children, and the stranger as part of the gathering, showing the assembly as a whole people convened together.
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