What Does 1 Kings 13:23 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
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 Hebrew verb for “saddled” also means to bind or bandage, joining the fitting of a beast to carry someone with the binding of a wound.
THE MEANING
A return becomes tangible: after bread and drink, the one who brought the prophet back fits the donkey to carry him onward. The verb translated “saddled” also carries the sense of binding or wrapping, a word used elsewhere for binding wounds. The meal ends, but the journey continues through a prepared bearer.
THE ROOT
וַיַּחֲבֹשׁ
wayyaḥăḇōš
GROWS FROM
חבש
To bind or wrap; also to saddle an animal or bind up a wound.
English “saddled” sounds like one narrow act of fitting tack. The Hebrew root חבש (ḥāḇaš, to bind or wrap) also names binding a wound, so preparing a carrier and tending an injury share the same verbal seed.
ALSO GROWS
saddled: Fitted an animal to carry a rider or load.
The same verb appears when Abraham prepares his donkey for a journey in Genesis 22:3.
bound up: Wrapped or tended a wound.
The same root describes wounds left untended in Isaiah 1:6 and wounds bound up in Psalm 147:3.
THE PATTERN
The Hebrew root חבש (ḥāḇaš, to bind or wrap) connects fitting an animal to carry a burden with binding up an injury.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.THE THREAD
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.Genesis uses the same Hebrew verb חבש (ḥāḇaš, to bind or saddle) when Abraham saddles his donkey. The shared word makes the preparation for travel visible: in 1 Kings, the animal is fitted to carry the prophet after the meal and return.
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