What Does 2 Chronicles 8:16 Mean in the King James?
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
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 work was “prepared” and names the house’s “foundation”: what is established at the beginning carries the work toward wholeness.
THE MEANING
You meet completion as wholeness: a work’s established foundation and its finished form belong to one continuous whole. The house of the LORD stands complete when the work is carried through to its end.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A finished work is only its final moment; this verse holds its foundation and completion together as parts of one whole.
THE ROOT
הוּסְדָה
husdah
GROWS FROM
יסד
To establish, set in place, or lay a foundation.
“prepared / foundation” in this verse is husdah. The word rendered “prepared” and the word rendered “foundation” grow from the same root. The work is established toward the foundation and carried through to completion: its readiness is bound to what it is built upon.
ALSO GROWS
yasad: To establish or lay a foundation.
יָסַד
It makes clear that the work’s preparation is an act of establishing, not merely getting ready.
yesod: Foundation or basis.
יְסוֹד
This is the base that gives the established work its direction and support.
שָׁלֵם
shalem
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole, complete, or sound.
“Perfected” carries the sense of a work made whole, not only a task brought to its last moment. The same root gives shalom, “wholeness,” so completion and wholeness share a seed.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
It reveals that the house’s completion belongs to the same word-family as wholeness.
shillem: To make good, repay, or restore what is due.
שִׁלֵּם
This branch also carries the sense of bringing something to a complete state by making good what is owed.
THE PATTERN
A work becomes whole when its foundation and its completion belong to one continuous act of establishment.
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.The house is called שָׁלֵם (shalem), whole; Psalm 122 names Jerusalem’s peace as שָׁלוֹם (shalom), from the same root. The finished house and the city’s wholeness echo one another in Hebrew.
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