What Does 1 Kings 16:20 Mean in the King James?
Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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
Treason is a binding together, and the verse keeps that binding and its deeds in the written record.
THE MEANING
The act and the conspiracy behind it remain legible beyond the moment in which they happen. The verse holds what is done together with how it is bound into a scheme.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a deed disappears once its moment passes is undone here: the verse says the act and its conspiracy remain written.
THE ROOT
קִשְׁרוֹ
qishro
GROWS FROM
קשר
To bind, tie, or join.
Here “treason” carries the deeper image of a binding: the Hebrew noun and verb repeat the root קשר, so the plot is a joined arrangement. Elsewhere the same root describes one life bound to another; the root names the bond, while context reveals what that bond serves.
ALSO GROWS
qashar: To bind or tie; also, to conspire.
קָשַׁר
The verse repeats this verb for the conspiracy, presenting the plot as a binding arrangement.
qeshurah: Bound or attached.
קְשׁוּרָה
In Genesis, this form describes one life bound to another, showing that the same root can name attachment as well as conspiracy.
THE PATTERN
A written record carries deeds, words, and events beyond the moment in which they occur.
Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,THE THREAD
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;The Hebrew behind “bound up” comes from the same root, קשר, as the word rendered “treason” in 1 Kings. In Genesis the bond joins two lives in attachment; here it joins people into a conspiracy, the root names the bond, and the context reveals its nature.
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