What Does 1 Kings 9:7 Mean in the King James?
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
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 house set apart for God’s name is still the house God threatens to send away; being consecrated does not make it untouchable.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to you now as a severe pairing: land that is given can be taken away, and a house set apart for God’s name can be sent from God’s presence. What was meant as a sign of devotion can become a proverb and a byword among peoples.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that whatever is dedicated to God is automatically protected from judgment and loss.
THE ROOT
הִכְרַתִּי
hikhratti
GROWS FROM
כרת
to cut, sever, or cut off
“cut off” in this verse is hikhratti. The verb pictures Israel being severed from the land it was given, rather than simply disappearing. The same root appears in the expression “cut a covenant,” bringing the language of a broken bond into the verse’s threatened removal.
ALSO GROWS
karat: to cut; to cut a covenant
כָּרַת
The covenant expression uses the same cutting verb, linking the threatened removal to the language of a severed bond.
keritut: severance; a dismissal, as in a certificate of divorce
כְּרִיתוּת
This noun carries the root’s sense of a bond being formally ended, echoing the verse’s forceful language of removal.
הִקְדַּשְׁתִּי
hiqdash'ti
GROWS FROM
קדש
to set apart as distinct or sacred
“hallowed” in this verse is hiqdash'ti. The house is set apart for God’s name, yet the same verse says it will be sent away. The shared root holds consecration and the possibility of judgment together.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: set apart; sacred
קָדוֹשׁ
The adjective shares the root that describes what has been done to the house.
qodesh: what is set apart; sacredness
קֹדֶשׁ
This noun shows that the root names both the act of setting apart and the distinct status that follows.
אֲשַׁלֵּחַ
ashalleach
GROWS FROM
שלח
to send, send forth, or release
“Cast out” is a sending verb: the house is sent away from before God’s face. The root’s movement remains present beneath the severity of the English phrase; here the sending is expulsion from presence.
ALSO GROWS
shalach: to send, send forth, or release
שָׁלַח
This is the verb beneath “cast out,” making the house’s removal an act of sending away.
shaliach: messenger; one who is sent
שָׁלִיחַ
The noun keeps the root’s sense of being sent into the open, clarifying the movement carried by the house’s expulsion.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart can still be stripped of its place and become a public sign of judgment.
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.THE THREAD
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.Both verses use שָׁלַח (shalach, “send”): Genesis says the human is “sent forth,” while Kings says the house is sent away from God’s presence. The shared verb makes the removal a movement out from a place of nearness.
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