What Does 2 Chronicles 7:1 Mean in the King James?

Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

2 Chronicles 7:1 · KJV

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

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The offering is named for rising, yet the fire comes down to consume it, and the LORD’s weight fills the house.

THE MEANING

The verse meets you with a movement: prayer reaches its end, fire comes down and consumes the offering that rises, and the LORD’s weight fills the house. God’s presence is shown as something that occupies the whole dwelling.

THE ROOT

כְּבוֹד

kavod

GROWS FROM

כבד

k-b-d

To be heavy, weighty; to carry weight.

Alongside splendor and honor, ⁨כָּבוֹד⁩ carries the concrete sense of weight. Here the LORD’s weight fills the house, so glory is presence with spatial force.

ALSO GROWS

kaved: Heavy; weighty.

כָּבֵד

This form preserves the concrete sense beneath the verse’s word for glory.

kibbed: To honor; to treat as weighty.

כִּבֵּד

The same root links honor with weight, deepening the image of the LORD’s weighty presence.

עֹלָה

ʿolah

GROWS FROM

עלה

ʿ-l-h

To rise, go up, ascend.

The burnt offering is literally an ascending offering: its name carries the upward motion of ⁨עָלָה⁩. Set beside the fire that comes down, the verse holds ascent and descent around the moment the LORD’s weight fills the house.

ALSO GROWS

ʿalah: To go up; to ascend.

עָלָה

This verb carries the upward movement named in the offering.

ʿaliyah: Ascent; a going up.

עֲלִיָּה

This noun keeps the root’s sense of rising visible alongside the offering’s name.

THE PATTERN

When the LORD’s presence enters a dwelling, it fills the space with divine weight and becomes perceptible.

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:34 · KJVThe LORD’s glory fills the tabernacle as the dwelling becomes full of divine presence.

So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

Ezekiel 43:5 · KJVThe glory again fills the house, and the prophet is carried into the space where that presence dwells.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 1:14 · KJVThe Word dwells among people, and the glory is seen in embodied presence.

THE THREAD

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 · KJV

The same Hebrew word ⁨כָּבוֹד⁩ (kavod, weight/glory) fills the house in both verses, revealing the same measure of presence. First Kings adds the bodily effect: the priests cannot stand to minister when the LORD’s weight occupies the space.

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