What Does 2 Chronicles 8:11 Mean in the King James?
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
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 Ark’s arrival makes holiness a boundary in physical space, so the household is arranged around the presence it holds.
THE MEANING
A dwelling’s arrangement answers to what it holds: the Ark’s arrival marks its places as set apart, and another house is made for the king’s wife. Holiness here is material and spatial, shaping where a household lives rather than remaining an invisible label.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that holiness is only an inward quality with no effect on where people dwell; here, the Ark’s presence marks a real boundary in the household.
THE ROOT
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
GROWS FROM
קדשׁ
q-d-sh
To be set apart or dedicated.
The word translated “holy” carries the sense of being set apart, and its related words can name both the act and the place of setting apart. Here, the Ark’s arrival gives that holiness a physical location, and the household is arranged around that boundary.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; holy.
קָדוֹשׁ
This adjective carries the same root into descriptions of what is set apart, showing that holiness is a state of designation, not only a feeling.
miqdash: Sanctuary; set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
This branch names a place made sacred, echoing the verse’s concrete link between the Ark’s arrival and the holiness of the places it has entered.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling becomes set apart through the presence it receives, and that presence shapes how its space is held.
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.THE THREAD
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.The Hebrew word translated “sanctified” comes from the same root, קדשׁ (q-d-sh), as “holy” in 8:11. The earlier verse names the house as set apart for God’s name and attention; 8:11 shows that this status has a material edge, shaping where the household dwells.
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