What Does Psalm 68:29 Mean in the King James?
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
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
Jerusalem is more than the destination of royal gifts: its name carries wholeness, so the verse pictures worldly power converging on what makes whole.
THE MEANING
God’s presence gathers the wealth and authority of rulers toward itself. Jerusalem carries the language of wholeness, and the verse shows even kings bringing what they possess toward it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that political power is self-sufficient: even kings bring their wealth before God.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
To be whole or complete; the root behind shalom, wholeness.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries the language of shalom, wholeness. The verse’s movement of royal wealth toward the temple is also a movement toward the place whose name holds that wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness; peace.
שָׁלוֹם
It reveals the quality carried in Jerusalem’s name: a gathered, whole state of being.
shalem: Whole; complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the root’s sense of completeness visible in the name’s connection to wholeness.
THE PATTERN
The presence of God becomes a point of convergence toward which rulers bring their wealth.
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Psalm 68 names Jerusalem as the place drawing kings’ gifts; Psalm 122 makes the name’s connection to shalom explicit through its word for peace. One verse shows wealth converging on the city, while the other names the wholeness sought for it.
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