What Does Zechariah 14:20 Mean in the King James?
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
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
The word stamped on a priest’s gold plate now appears on horse bells: what is set apart reaches the ordinary world.
THE MEANING
The horse bells and the pots in the LORD’s house carry the same designation: HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. Ordinary equipment stands beside the altar’s vessels within one field of belonging to the LORD.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that only objects reserved for worship can be set apart dissolves here: even horse bells and household pots bear the sacred designation.
THE ROOT
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
GROWS FROM
קדשׁ
q-d-sh
To set apart or consecrate; to be sacred.
“HOLINESS” in this verse is qodesh. Qodesh names the state of being set apart for the LORD. Its root also names what is holy, the act of consecrating, and the sanctuary itself, so the inscription on horse bells gives the ordinary audible world a sanctuary identity.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Holy; set apart.
קָדוֹשׁ
This adjective describes the quality carried by the inscription on the bells.
qiddesh: To consecrate; to set apart.
קִדֵּשׁ
This verb shows that holiness includes the act of designating something for the LORD.
miqdash: Sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The same root that names the sanctuary now marks objects beyond its walls.
THE PATTERN
Set-apartness reaches from designated sanctuary objects into the ordinary things and work of life.
And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.THE THREAD
And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.Exodus bears the same Hebrew phrase, קֹדֶשׁ לַיהוָה (qodesh la-YHWH, “set apart to the LORD”), on the high priest’s gold plate. Zechariah places that inscription on horse bells, extending the priestly designation into the ordinary world.
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