What Does 2 Chronicles 6:10 Mean in the King James?
The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
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 same Hebrew root says the LORD “established” the word and Solomon “rose” into David’s place: fulfillment is the word standing up in a life.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s spoken word takes visible form in a successor, a throne, and a house built for his name, his nature made known. The verse holds these as connected expressions of one promise brought into standing reality.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that a promise remains only speech: here, the word takes shape in a life, a place, and a house bearing the LORD’s name.
THE ROOT
קוּם
qûm
GROWS FROM
קום
Rise or stand; in a causative form, raise or establish.
“performed / risen up” in this verse is qûm. The Hebrew uses this root for both the LORD establishing his word and Solomon rising into David’s place. English gives these separate actions, while the root links fulfillment with something rising into its appointed place.
ALSO GROWS
qûm: Rise, stand.
קוּם
This is the root behind Solomon’s “I am risen up.”
hēqîm: Raise, establish.
הֵקִים
This causative form describes the LORD establishing the spoken word.
דָּבָר
dābār
GROWS FROM
דבר
Speak; a spoken word or matter.
The verse places the spoken word beside what it becomes: a matter established in the world. “Word” here carries the sense of something spoken that takes form.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The promise is both speech and the matter that comes to stand.
dibbēr: Spoke.
דִּבֵּר
The verse uses this verb for the LORD’s speaking, from the same root as “word.”
שֵׁם
shem
GROWS FROM
שם
Name; identity or reputation made known.
The house is built for the LORD’s name: for the nature the name carries and makes known. The name is not merely an inscription; it points to whose character the house bears witness to.
ALSO GROWS
shem: Name.
שֵׁם
The house is dedicated to the LORD’s name, identifying whose nature it serves.
shem tov: Good name, reputation.
שֵׁם טוֹב
This phrase shows how a name can carry the character known through it.
THE PATTERN
A spoken promise becomes visible as it takes a standing form in the world.
There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.THE THREAD
And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.The Hebrew repeats the same qum root for the LORD “establishing” his word and Solomon “rising” in David’s place. The paired wording makes the link visible: the promise stands up as a life and a dwelling.
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