What Does 2 Chronicles 9:16 Mean in the King James?
And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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
A shield meant to meet danger ends this verse set inside a house, where protection becomes something the king can count and display.
THE MEANING
The verse gives protection a form you can weigh: each shield is made of gold, then placed in the king’s house. A shield covers against threat, yet here its weight and location also make it a visible measure of the house’s abundance.
THE ROOT
מָגֵן
magen
GROWS FROM
מגן
To shield or cover; in a related verbal form, to hand over or deliver.
The noun מָגֵן (magen, shield) shares its root with מִגֵּן (miggen, handed over or delivered). The root holds protection and being handed over in the same sound-shape; here, the shields are made precious and placed in the king’s house.
ALSO GROWS
magen: Shield
מָגֵן
This is the word for the gold shields in the verse: objects meant to cover and protect.
miggen: Handed over, delivered
מִגֵּן
This verbal form appears in Genesis 14:20, where enemies are delivered into someone’s hand; it shows another side of the root’s language of protection and power.
וַיִּתְּנֵם
wayyittenem
GROWS FROM
נתן
Give, set, place.
The verb rendered “put” carries the sense of giving or setting something in place. The shields are not merely described as possessions: they are set within the king’s house, where their protective purpose and their display of wealth meet.
ALSO GROWS
natan: Give, set, place
נָתַן
This is the verb’s root form and preserves the range behind the king placing the shields in the house.
mattan: Gift
מַתָּן
This noun from the same root connects setting something in place with giving it over.
THE PATTERN
Scripture carries the shield from a crafted object to an image of protection grounded in the one trusted.
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.THE THREAD
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.The same Hebrew word מָגֵן (magen, shield) used for Solomon’s gold objects is the word the psalm uses for the LORD as the speaker’s shield. The word stays the same while the source of protection shifts from a stored object to present protection.
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