What Does 2 Chronicles 11:9 Mean in the King James?

And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

2 Chronicles 11:9 · 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

Azekah’s name carries the image of a boundary dug around what is meant to be held.

THE MEANING

Protection has a map: it is attached to named places, not left as an abstraction. Azekah adds the image of an enclosure around what is held.

THE ROOT

עֲזֵקָה

ʿAzeqah

GROWS FROM

עזק

ʿ-z-q

To dig around, enclose, or fence.

Azekah’s name is associated with ⁨עזק⁩, a root that gives the place a sense of enclosure. Isaiah uses the same root for fencing a vineyard, so the name holds an image of a boundary drawn around what is being kept.

ALSO GROWS

ʿāzaq: To dig around or enclose; to fence.

עָזַק

This verb supplies the boundary image carried by the place-name Azekah.

ʿAzeqah: Azekah; a place-name associated with enclosure.

עֲזֵקָה

The city’s name makes its boundary-like character part of the landscape named in the verse.

THE PATTERN

Protection takes shape in boundaries and structures that hold what is within them.

And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.

2 Chronicles 11:10 · KJVThe neighboring list also names places whose protection is expressed through their fortification.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Proverbs 18:10 · KJVSafety is pictured as entering a strong structure that shelters those within it.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

Matthew 7:25 · KJVA structure holds against pressure when it has a firm foundation.

THE THREAD

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Isaiah 5:2 · KJV

Isaiah uses ⁨עזק⁩ (ʿ-z-q) in “fenced it” for enclosing a vineyard. That same root is associated with Azekah’s name, linking the city to the image of a boundary around what is cultivated and kept.

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