What Does 1 Chronicles 10:6 Mean in the King James?
So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.
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
A king’s death does not stay with the king: the same word carries the ending across his whole house.
THE MEANING
The verse gives no distance between Saul and those bound to him: his sons and his whole house enter the same ending together. It speaks to the vulnerability of a household when death reaches every member at once.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a ruler’s death is only his private ending falls away here: the verse names his sons and whole house in the same event.
THE ROOT
וַיָּמָת
wayyāmāṯ
GROWS FROM
מות
to die; death
The Hebrew uses the same root first for Saul’s death and then for the house’s death, shifting from a singular verb to a plural one. English repeats “died,” while Hebrew’s shared root makes the ending sound like one fate extending from the king to his household.
ALSO GROWS
māweṯ: death
מָוֶת
This noun names the same ending that the verse expresses as an event happening to Saul and his house.
mēṯ: dead person; deceased
מֵת
This related form describes one who has reached the state the verse names for Saul and his family.
THE PATTERN
Death reaches across household bonds and social distinctions as a common human end.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:THE THREAD
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.Both verses use מות (mûṯ, “to die”). Here the deaths gather a whole household together; Deuteronomy uses the same root to mark a boundary: guilt does not pass from parent to child.
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