What Does 2 Chronicles 6:9 Mean in the King James?
Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
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 Hebrew sets ben (בֵּן, “son”) beside yibneh (יִבְנֶה, “he will build”), letting the one who comes forth become the one who builds a house for God’s name, his nature.
THE MEANING
Your work can have a real limit: you do not complete every house you help bring into being. What comes forth after you may build what you cannot. The house is for God’s name, שֵׁם (shem, “name,” carrying the nature of the one named), so its purpose rests in the nature it serves, not in who finishes it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
An unfinished work means you have failed or been excluded from its purpose. Here, one person’s limit can be part of how the work continues through another.
THE ROOT
יִבְנֶה
yivneh
GROWS FROM
בנה
To build, establish, or build up.
The Hebrew places ben (בֵּן, “son”) beside yivneh (יִבְנֶה, “he will build”), echoing the same consonants. The English separates son and building; the Hebrew lets the one who carries the line forward also be the one who builds the house.
ALSO GROWS
ben: son, offspring
בֵּן
It appears immediately before yivneh, “he will build,” linking the one who comes forth with the building that follows.
nibneh: be built, be built up
נִבְנֶה
The same root can describe a household being built up through offspring, bringing family and house into the same image.
binyan: building, structure
בִּנְיָן
This form carries the root from the act of building to the structure that takes shape.
הַיּוֹצֵא
hayyotse
GROWS FROM
יצא
To go out, come out, or emerge.
“come forth” in this verse is hayyotse. The son is described as the one emerging from the body, and that emergence leads into the work of building. The root holds both leaving and coming forth, so the verse presents succession as movement into what follows.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: go out, come out
יָצָא
This is the root verb behind the description of the son who comes forth.
motsa: going out, source, or origin
מוֹצָא
The related noun can name an emergence or source, echoing the verse’s focus on what proceeds from the father.
THE PATTERN
A house that carries God’s purpose takes shape through work that reaches beyond one person’s strength or span.
He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.THE THREAD
He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.The same Hebrew root בנה (banah, “build”) names the son’s work of building the house, and the verse also names him as God’s son. That makes the echo between son and building unmistakable: what comes forth carries the work forward.
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