What Does 1 Kings 15:30 Mean in the King James?
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
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 same root names both Jeroboam’s own missing and the missing he causes in Israel: one person’s miss becomes a people’s path.
THE MEANING
The verse makes visible a living pattern: a miss does not remain private when one person turns it into a path for others. The same root describes Jeroboam missing and causing Israel to miss, and that shared path provokes the LORD God of Israel to anger. One person’s chosen way can become a people’s way.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a leader’s failure stops with the leader: what he causes others to practice becomes part of the charge.
THE ROOT
חטא
ḥṭʾ ḥāṭāʾ heḥĕṭîʾ
GROWS FROM
חטא
to miss
“sins / sinned / made Israel sin” in this verse is ḥṭʾ ḥāṭāʾ heḥĕṭîʾ. Hebrew repeats one root for Jeroboam’s own missing and the missing he causes Israel to do. The causative form makes the miss reproducible: what one person misses becomes something a people are made to miss.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: to miss; to sin
חָטָא
This is the form describing Jeroboam’s own act: the root’s movement begins with one person.
heḥĕṭîʾ: to cause to miss; to lead into sin
הֶחֱטִיא
This causative form describes the miss spreading from Jeroboam to Israel.
כַּעַס
kaʿas hikʿîs
GROWS FROM
כעס
anger; to provoke anger
“provocation / provoked to anger” in this verse is kaʿas hikʿîs. The verse repeats this root in the provocation and in the act of provoking the LORD. The wording traces the consequence of the shared missing directly into the anger it stirs.
ALSO GROWS
kaʿas: anger; provocation
כַּעַס
This names the provoking act that accompanies the spread of the miss.
hikʿîs: to provoke to anger
הִכְעִיס
This causative form names the effect of that act on the LORD God of Israel.
THE PATTERN
One person’s chosen way can become a shared condition, carrying consequences beyond the person who begins it.
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.THE THREAD
For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.The same Hebrew root חטא appears in “sins,” “sinned,” and “to make Israel to sin.” Here the verse shows the miss becoming a walk in Jeroboam’s way: a pattern that another person carries forward.
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