What Does Numbers 25:12 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
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
Peace here is a covenantal bond of wholeness, not a passing calm.
THE MEANING
You meet peace here as a wholeness God gives, a bond that reaches beyond a temporary quiet. “I give” makes the promise present and received: you are not left to manufacture it yourself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that peace exists only while life is quiet; it names wholeness as a covenantal gift.
THE ROOT
שָׁלוֹם
shalom
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole, complete, or intact; to make whole or restore.
“peace” in this verse is shalom. The root connects wholeness with making good what is due. So this covenant holds more than a quiet moment: it carries the sense of completeness and restoration.
ALSO GROWS
shalem: Whole, complete, sound.
שָׁלֵם
This branch reveals the fullness inside the covenant: peace includes a state of wholeness.
shillem: To make good, repay, or recompense.
שִׁלֵּם
This branch links wholeness with setting right what is owed or damaged.
THE PATTERN
God’s wholeness is given as a covenantal bond that holds through unstable conditions.
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.THE THREAD
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.Both verses pair בְּרִית (berit, covenant) with שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness), joining the same words in a promise of lasting bond. Isaiah sets that covenant beside mountains and hills being removed while it remains, revealing how far this wholeness reaches.
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