What Does 2 Kings 15:26 Mean?

And the rest of the words of Pekahiah, and all that he did, look, they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 15:26 · SDV

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King James Version

And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

THE KEY

The Hebrew uses ⁨דבר⁩ (dābār, “word” or “matter”) for both the king’s “acts” and their “chronicles,” carrying what he did forward as words among the days.

THE MEANING

A brief account does not hold all that has been done; what remains is still written beyond the visible line. Your life, too, is larger than any single sentence that names it.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the assumption that whatever a brief account leaves out has disappeared.

THE ROOT

דִּבְרֵי

divrei

GROWS FROM

דבר

To speak; word, matter, or affair.

English gives “acts” and “chronicles” separate labels, but Hebrew uses the same root for both. The deeds are gathered into the “words of the days,” so what is done becomes something spoken and remembered.

ALSO GROWS

dābār: Word; matter or affair.

דָּבָר

The same word holds both what is spoken and what takes place.

divrei hayamim: Words or matters of the days; chronicles.

דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים

The book’s name repeats the root used for Pekahiah’s acts, linking the deeds to their written record.

פְּקַחְיָה

Peqaḥyah

GROWS FROM

פקח

To open, especially the eyes.

Pekahiah (Peqaḥyah) joins ⁨פָּקַח⁩ (pāqaḥ, “open the eyes”) with ⁨יה⁩ (Yah, the divine name): “Yah opens.” The name’s language of opened sight sits beside a verse that points beyond the small portion visible in its account.

ALSO GROWS

pāqaḥ: To open, especially the eyes.

פָּקַח

This verb is the seed of the opening carried in Pekahiah’s name.

piqqēaḥ: Seeing; one whose eyes are open.

פִּקֵּחַ

This related form makes the name’s opening specifically about sight.

THE PATTERN

What a brief account leaves outside it remains within a larger record.

And the rest of the words of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.

1 Kings 14:19 · SDVThe king’s actions extend beyond the account at hand and are held in a written record.

For God brings every making into judgment, upon every hidden thing, whether good or harm.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 · SDVThe record reaches even what is secret, beyond what a visible account contains.

And I see the dead, small and great, standing before God. The scrolls are opened, and another scroll is opened, which is the book of life. The dead are judged by the things written in the scrolls, according to their works.

Revelation 20:12 · SDVThe opened books make deeds present as a record beyond the life’s immediate telling.

THE THREAD

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield, and your very great wages.

Genesis 15:1 · SDV

Genesis 15:1 uses ⁨דבר⁩ (dābār, “word” or “matter”) for both “these things” and “the word of the LORD.” That shared root opens the pairing here: deeds and words belong to one field, so what is done can be gathered into the words of the days.

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