What Does Ezra 5:15 Mean in the King James?
And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.
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
Restoration is not complete when displaced things are merely recovered; the dwelling that holds them also rises in its proper place.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now of restoration as both return and rebuilding: what has been displaced comes back, and the dwelling itself is made whole in its proper place. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, Yerushalayim) carries shalom (שָׁלוֹם, wholeness) in its name, so the destination bears the sense of restoration arriving at wholeness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what is displaced or broken is beyond restoration: both what belongs inside and the dwelling itself can return to place.
THE ROOT
יִתְבְּנֵא
yitbenê
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
To build, establish.
The Aramaic verb translated “be builded” carries the same root as Hebrew banah, “to build.” The verse joins the return of the vessels to the rebuilding of the house: restoration includes both what belongs within the dwelling and the dwelling itself.
ALSO GROWS
banah: Built
בָּנָה
The Hebrew cognate makes the shared root visible: the house rises through the act of building.
binyan: Building, structure
בִּנְיָן
This noun shows the root’s movement from the act of building to the structure that stands.
banui: Built
בָּנוּי
This form describes the result of the root’s action: a dwelling brought into being.
THE PATTERN
God’s dwelling takes shape through concrete acts of making, building, and being built together.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.Psalm 127:1 repeats the root בנה (banah, build) and reveals the deeper source of the building: the LORD himself. The restored house is both a structure returned to its place and a dwelling whose making depends on God.
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