What Does 2 Chronicles 9:11 Mean in the King James?
And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
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 wood raises a way toward the sacred and becomes instruments for shared song.
THE MEANING
Algum wood becomes both raised passages for the house of the LORD and the palace, and harps and psalteries for the singers. One material serves both approach and expression: it makes a way upward and carries a shared voice. The verse holds access and song together as forms of crafted beauty.
THE ROOT
מְסִלּוֹת
mesillot
GROWS FROM
סלל
salal
To raise or heap up, forming a raised way.
“terraces” in this verse is mesillot. The Hebrew word is mesillot, from salal, to raise or heap up; it can name a raised path. The wood becomes both a passage that lifts people toward the house and the instruments that carry a shared song.
ALSO GROWS
mesillah: A raised road, highway, or path.
מְסִלָּה
The related noun appears as highway in Isaiah 62:10, showing that the terraces belong to the image of a raised way.
sollu: Cast up; raise up.
סֹלּוּ
This command from the same root appears in Isaiah 62:10: a way is made passable by raising it.
solelah: A raised siege ramp or embankment.
סֹלְלָה
The same root can describe a raised structure pressed against a wall, revealing how a built-up way can enable passage or confrontation.
THE PATTERN
A raised or cleared way makes passage possible.
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;THE THREAD
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.The word translated highway is mesillah, from the same root as the terraces in this verse. A stairway and a highway share the image of a raised route: here the wood makes a way upward at the house, while Isaiah names raising the way as work that clears passage for a people.
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