What Does 1 Kings 20:43 Mean in the King James?
And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
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 king can leave the prophet, but the judgment follows him home.
THE MEANING
When a hard word confronts you, leaving its speaker does not make the word disappear; its weight follows into private life. The king’s heaviness and anger show a response still filling the home he enters.
THE ROOT
זָעֵף
zāʿēph
GROWS FROM
זעף
To be angry, vexed, or seething with anger.
“displeased” in this verse is zāʿēph. The word names anger that simmers, not mere disappointment. The same root can describe a heart fretting against the LORD, so the king’s mood is anger carried inward after a condemning word.
ALSO GROWS
yizʿaph: To fret or grow angry.
יִזְעַף
In Proverbs 19:3, the heart frets against the LORD, showing how this anger can turn into grievance against its source.
wayyizʿaph: Became enraged.
וַיִּזְעַף
In 2 Chronicles 26:19, the same root describes Uzziah’s anger when confronted, linking the king’s displeasure here with anger that rises under rebuke.
THE PATTERN
When a desired outcome is denied, anger rises, but it cannot reshape what is right.
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.THE THREAD
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.Proverbs uses יִזְעַף (yizʿaph, “fretteth”), from the same root זעף as the king’s “displeased.” It shows anger as the heart turning its grievance toward the LORD, extending this scene into a pattern of inward resistance.
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