What Does 2 Chronicles 1:17 Mean in the King James?

And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

2 Chronicles 1:17 · KJV

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THE KEY

The repeated act of bringing out turns a price list into a map of how one kingdom’s power reaches another.

THE MEANING

You see power travel through people’s hands: a chariot and horse come from Egypt, then horses reach Hittite and Syrian kings. The repeated movement outward shows trade expanding a ruler’s reach beyond his own borders.

THE ROOT

וַיּוֹצִיאוּ

wayyotsi’u

GROWS FROM

יצא

yatsa

To go out or emerge; in the causative form here, to cause something to go out, to bring out.

“brought forth” in this verse is wayyotsi’u. The verse repeats a causative form of ⁨יצא⁩ (yatsa, to go out): the traders make the chariot and horses go out. One root binds both acts into a single outward movement, with Egypt as the point of origin and neighboring kings as its destinations.

ALSO GROWS

yatsa: To go out, emerge.

יָצָא

This is the root’s basic movement; here, the traders cause the goods to make that movement.

motsa: A source, outlet, or point of emergence.

מוֹצָא

The word connects outward movement with its point of origin: Egypt is the source from which these goods travel.

THE PATTERN

The movement of horses and chariots reveals how royal power travels between kingdoms and through markets.

But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

Deuteronomy 17:16 · KJVThe warning ties a king’s accumulation of horses to Egypt, showing that imported mobility shapes royal power.

They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

Ezekiel 27:14 · KJVHorses and horsemen move through the fairs as part of the commercial network between kingdoms.

And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

Revelation 18:13 · KJVHorses and chariots appear in the market’s inventory beside enslaved people and “souls of men,” exposing the human stakes of turning power into merchandise.

THE THREAD

And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:41 · KJV

The same root ⁨יצא⁩ (yatsa, to go out) names the hosts going out from Egypt here. In the present verse, a chariot and horses go out as merchandise; in Exodus, the hosts go out as a people. The shared root makes the difference between exported power and collective departure audible.

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