What Does 1 Kings 21:14 Mean in the King James?

Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

1 Kings 21:14 · KJV

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 report is part of the violence’s machinery: it carries the completed killing to the authority that set it in motion.

THE MEANING

The verse holds the moment when violence is complete and its result is sent into the hands of authority. Its words keep act and consequence joined: Naboth is stoned, and he is dead. The report carries that result to the one who arranged it.

THE ROOT

וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ

wayyishleḥu

GROWS FROM

שלח

Send, send forth, release, or let go.

English gives the dispatch; the Hebrew root ⁨שלח⁩ (shalach, send or release) holds the news as something sent forth into another’s reach. Here, the report carries the completed killing from its scene to Jezebel’s authority.

ALSO GROWS

mishloach: Sending, dispatch.

מִשְׁלוֹחַ

This branch makes the report’s movement visible: the killing’s result is dispatched to Jezebel.

shaliach: Messenger, emissary; one who is sent.

שָׁלִיחַ

The people who carry the report act as intermediaries, bringing the news into Jezebel’s reach.

THE PATTERN

A dispatched message carries an act beyond its scene, placing its meaning and next consequence in a receiver’s hands.

And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.

Genesis 37:32 · KJVThe brothers send the coat as evidence, leaving their father to supply the conclusion it suggests.

Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

2 Samuel 11:25 · KJVDavid’s reply travels through a messenger and turns the report of battlefield deaths into an order to continue the assault.

And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

John 9:7 · KJVAn instruction sent to a man leads him to Siloam, whose name means “Sent,” and he returns seeing.

THE THREAD

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Genesis 3:23 · KJV

Both verses use ⁨שלח⁩ (shalach, send or release): the report is sent to Jezebel, just as Adam is sent forth from Eden. Here the verb sends a message rather than a person, carrying the completed killing into the ruler’s reach.

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