What Does Numbers 14:10 Mean in the King James?
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
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
As the whole congregation turns toward stoning, the LORD’s weight becomes visible before that same whole congregation.
THE MEANING
You see a whole congregation ready to stone the people before them, and the LORD’s weight appearing in the meeting tent before them all. The verse holds the violence in full view while making the divine presence equally public; no one in the scene is outside that sight.
THE ROOT
כָּבוֹד
kavod
GROWS FROM
כבד
k-b-d
To be heavy or weighty; by extension, to be honored.
English “glory” can sound like acclaim or radiance, while כָּבוֹד (kavod, weight or glory) carries the sense of substance and consequence. Here that weight is made visible before the very assembly whose threat of violence fills the scene.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy, weighty
כָּבֵד
This branch makes the concrete sense of “glory” audible: the LORD’s presence carries weight before the congregation.
kibbed: To honor, treat as weighty
כִּבֵּד
Honor is what happens when someone is recognized as having weight; the visible appearance places the LORD’s weight before the whole assembly.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s presence becomes publicly visible among gathered people, not confined to a private witness.
And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.The same Hebrew word, כָּבוֹד (kavod, weight or glory), appears in both verses. In each, that weight becomes visible before the congregation, turning “glory” from an abstract idea into a presence the gathered people see.
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