What Does 1 Kings 14:13 Mean in the King James?
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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 calls it a davar, a word or matter: what is good in him has a name and a direction toward the LORD, even inside Jeroboam’s house.
THE MEANING
A good matter toward the LORD remains visible in a person within a house marked by judgment; that inner reality is why he alone is mourned and buried. For you now, the verse holds the story around you apart from what is found within you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The reputation of the people around you determines what can be found in you.
THE ROOT
דָּבָר
davar
GROWS FROM
ד־ב־ר
To speak; a word or matter.
The word rendered “thing” is davar, which can also mean “word” or “matter,” and shares its root with the verb “speak.” The goodness found in him is a recognizable matter with direction, toward the LORD, not a label inherited from his house.
ALSO GROWS
dibber: to speak
דִּבֵּר
It is a verb from the same root; a davar can be what is spoken as well as a matter found in him.
devarim: words, matters
דְּבָרִים
This plural carries the same range of utterance and circumstance, keeping the phrase wider than English “thing.”
THE PATTERN
What is truly good is recognized at its source and known by what it brings forth.
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.THE THREAD
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.Jeremiah uses the same phrase, davar tov, rendered “that good thing,” for the LORD’s promised word to Israel and Judah. Here the good matter is found in a person; there it is spoken and brought to pass, letting “thing” retain the life of a word.
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