What Does 2 Chronicles 13:6 Mean in the King James?
Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
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
Rebellion here rises from inside service: the one called servant becomes the one who stands against his lord.
THE MEANING
This verse exposes a fracture that can happen inside a bond of service: a person can occupy the servant’s place and still rise against the one called lord. The bond is named, and so is the breach; neither erases the other.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief is that a role of service guarantees loyalty to the one being served.
THE ROOT
מָרַד
marad
GROWS FROM
מרד
To rebel or break away from recognized authority.
“rebelled” in this verse is marad. The Hebrew verb names a rupture against the relationship already in place. Here, that rupture is directed against the very lord whose servant Jeroboam is called.
ALSO GROWS
mered: Rebellion or revolt.
מֶרֶד
The noun makes clear that the break is a distinct act of resistance, not merely a change in position.
mored: One who rebels.
מֹרֵד
This branch names the person by the resistance they enact, echoing the verse’s sharp turn from servant to rebel.
עֶבֶד
eved
GROWS FROM
עבד
To work or serve.
The root ties the servant to service as an enacted relationship, not just a title. Set beside marad, the verse places service and resistance in one person without letting either word cancel the other.
ALSO GROWS
avad: To serve or work.
עָבַד
The verb shows the active relationship carried by the title servant.
avodah: Service, labor, or work.
עֲבֹדָה
This branch opens the servant’s role into the larger field of work and service that the rebellion breaks against.
וַיָּקָם
vayyaqam
GROWS FROM
קום
To rise, stand, or become established.
“risen up” in this verse is vayyaqam. Before the verse names the rebellion, it says Jeroboam rises. The movement of standing up gives the rupture a visible shape: resistance takes a position against the authority already named.
ALSO GROWS
qum: To rise or stand.
קוּם
This is the verb’s basic movement, which the verse places immediately before rebellion.
maqom: A place or standing place.
מָקוֹם
This related word suggests a place where one stands, sharpening the verse’s image of taking a stand against one’s lord.
THE PATTERN
Rebellion is a rupture within a recognized bond of authority, capable of widening from one person to a whole people.
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.THE THREAD
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.The same Hebrew root, מרד (marad, rebel), names the breach in both verses. The shared root lets the reader see that rupture widen from one servant’s resistance to a people’s break from the house of David.
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