What Does 2 Chronicles 14:1 Mean in the King James?
So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
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 land itself is undisturbed: the ten years name a shared condition of relief.
THE MEANING
The verse holds succession and calm together: a change of rule can coincide with an undisturbed land. The quiet receives a duration, ten years, so relief is real and measurable without being called permanent.
THE ROOT
שָׁקְטָה
shaqetah
GROWS FROM
שקט
To be quiet, undisturbed, or at rest.
English “quiet” can suggest only low sound; this root also names being free from disturbance. The land itself is the subject, so the verse describes public relief lasting a named span.
ALSO GROWS
shaqetah: Was quiet, undisturbed, or at rest.
שָׁקְטָה
This is the form used here of the land, making the territory itself the one experiencing the respite.
sheqet: Quietness or stillness; a related noun used in Isaiah 32:17.
שֶׁקֶט
The related noun names quiet as a condition, deepening the verse’s description of an undisturbed land.
THE PATTERN
Relief is a lived condition with a duration, experienced by a land or by a burdened person.
And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.THE THREAD
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.Isaiah uses the same Hebrew root for “at rest” and “quiet,” then says the earth breaks into singing. Quiet here names a condition free from disturbance, with room for expression to emerge.
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