What Does 1 Kings 15:10 Mean in the King James?
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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 verse hides a repeated seed: Jerusalem and Abishalom both carry shalom, placing the reign inside the language of wholeness.
THE MEANING
Your life is more than its visible span of authority or work: it is situated in a place and carried through named relationships. Here, forty-one years of rule sit inside Jerusalem and alongside a mother whose father bears the name Abishalom, repeating the language of wholeness around the reign.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A long public tenure is the whole story of a life.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole, complete, or sound.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. The Hebrew name Yerushalayim carries the shalom sound of wholeness. That same seed surfaces in Abishalom, so the reign sits amid a repeated language of wholeness in both place and lineage.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch is echoed in both the city name and Abishalom.
shalem: Whole, complete, intact.
שָׁלֵם
This branch shows wholeness as completeness, not only the absence of conflict.
Avishalom: My father is wholeness or peace.
אֲבִישָׁלוֹם
The mother’s father bears the same shalom element, binding place and family line through one shared seed.
THE PATTERN
Scripture records public office alongside place and kinship, so a title or tenure never stands alone.
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Psalm 122:6 names Jerusalem’s shalom directly as its peace. The same three-letter root reappears in Abishalom, making place and lineage echo one another around the reign.
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