What Does 1 Chronicles 6:15 Mean in the King James?
And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
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 for exile comes from a root that also means to uncover: what is taken from its place is laid bare.
THE MEANING
This verse names forced removal without softening it: Jehozadak enters captivity as Judah and Jerusalem are carried away. Nebuchadnezzar’s hand is the visible instrument, while the sentence names the LORD as the one carrying them; both agencies remain in view.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that the visible power is the whole story: the verse names Nebuchadnezzar’s hand and the LORD’s agency together.
THE ROOT
בְּהַגְלוֹת
behaglot
GROWS FROM
גלה
To uncover or reveal; in a causative form, to carry into exile.
“captivity / carried away” in this verse is behaglot. The same root names uncovering and exile, joining exposure with removal from a place. The verse’s language holds both meanings beneath the experience of captivity without making that forced removal less severe.
ALSO GROWS
galah: To uncover, reveal, or disclose.
גָּלָה
This branch exposes the revealing sense beneath the word for exile.
higlah: To carry into exile or deport.
הִגְלָה
This causative form names the forced removal described in the verse.
golah: Exiles; the people carried away.
גּוֹלָה
This related noun names those who undergo the displacement.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
Wholeness or completeness.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries the shalom resonance of wholeness, and the verse names the city among those forcibly carried away. Its name holds wholeness against the constriction of captivity.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness.
שָׁלוֹם
This branch makes the city’s resonance with wholeness audible.
shalem: Whole or complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch echoes the wholeness placed under pressure when Jerusalem is taken.
THE PATTERN
Removal and revelation meet in the language of uncovering: what is taken from its place can also be laid bare.
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.THE THREAD
He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.Daniel uses the Aramaic cognate of Hebrew galah for “revealeth,” making the link between exile and disclosure audible across related languages. The connection opens captivity as both removal and exposure, while leaving the force of that displacement intact.
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