What Does 2 Chronicles 14:2 Mean?
And Asa did that which was good and straight in the eyes of the LORD his God.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:THE KEY
The verse’s hidden measure of “right” is straightness: goodness is not only good in effect, but aligned before the LORD’s sight.
THE MEANING
This verse places the reader’s life before God’s seeing: goodness has both a beneficial quality and a straight, unbent direction. What is right is not measured only by human approval; it stands in alignment with the LORD who sees.
THE ROOT
הַיָּשָׁר
ha-yashar
GROWS FROM
ישר
To be straight, level, or upright.
The word rendered “right” carries the image of what is straight and unbent. Paired with “good,” it presents goodness as a quality with direction: what is good also holds a straight course before God’s seeing.
ALSO GROWS
yosher: Uprightness; integrity.
יֹשֶׁר
This noun names straightness as a quality, showing that “right” describes an orientation, not only a correct choice.
yesharim: Upright ones; those who are straight.
יְשָׁרִים
This plural form applies the same straightness to people, showing how the root moves from a quality to a way of being.
THE PATTERN
What is good is discerned under God’s sight, which reaches beyond a person’s own verdict.
Every way of a man is straight in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.Do not take the shape of this age, but be reshaped by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test what is the good, well-pleasing, and complete will of God.THE THREAD
And you shall do what is straight and good in the eyes of the LORD, so that it may go well with you, and so that you may go in and take hold of the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers.Deuteronomy repeats the same pairing of “right” and “good” under the LORD’s sight. The echo holds straightness and goodness together: what is good has a straight course visible to God.
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