What Does 2 Chronicles 1:17 Mean?
And they went up, and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so they brought out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their hands.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.THE KEY
The repeated act of bringing out turns a price list into a map of how one kingdom’s power reaches another.
THE MEANING
You see power travel through people’s hands: a chariot and horse come from Egypt, then horses reach Hittite and Syrian kings. The repeated movement outward shows trade expanding a ruler’s reach beyond his own borders.
THE ROOT
וַיּוֹצִיאוּ
wayyotsi’u
GROWS FROM
יצא
yatsa
To go out or emerge; in the causative form here, to cause something to go out, to bring out.
“brought out” in this verse is wayyotsi’u. The verse repeats a causative form of יצא (yatsa, to go out): the traders make the chariot and horses go out. One root binds both acts into a single outward movement, with Egypt as the point of origin and neighboring kings as its destinations.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out, emerge.
יָצָא
This is the root’s basic movement; here, the traders cause the goods to make that movement.
motsa: A source, outlet, or point of emergence.
מוֹצָא
The word connects outward movement with its point of origin: Egypt is the source from which these goods travel.
THE PATTERN
The movement of horses and chariots reveals how royal power travels between kingdoms and through markets.
But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor turn the people back to Egypt in order to multiply horses. For the LORD has said to you, You shall not again turn back by this way.The house of Togarmah set down horses, riders, and mules in the rows of your wares.And cinnamon, and fragrances, and incense, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and bodies, and living souls of humankind.THE THREAD
And it came to be at the end of four hundred and thirty years, and on this very bone of the day it came to be, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.The same root יצא (yatsa, to go out) names the hosts going out from Egypt here. In the present verse, a chariot and horses go out as merchandise; in Exodus, the hosts go out as a people. The shared root makes the difference between exported power and collective departure audible.
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