What Does 2 Chronicles 14:2 Mean in the King James?
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
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 verse’s hidden measure of “right” is straightness: goodness is not only good in effect, but aligned before the LORD’s sight.
THE MEANING
This verse places the reader’s life before God’s seeing: goodness has both a beneficial quality and a straight, unbent direction. What is right is not measured only by human approval; it stands in alignment with the LORD who sees.
THE ROOT
הַיָּשָׁר
ha-yashar
GROWS FROM
ישר
To be straight, level, or upright.
The word rendered “right” carries the image of what is straight and unbent. Paired with “good,” it presents goodness as a quality with direction: what is good also holds a straight course before God’s seeing.
ALSO GROWS
yosher: Uprightness; integrity.
יֹשֶׁר
This noun names straightness as a quality, showing that “right” describes an orientation, not only a correct choice.
yesharim: Upright ones; those who are straight.
יְשָׁרִים
This plural form applies the same straightness to people, showing how the root moves from a quality to a way of being.
THE PATTERN
What is good is discerned under God’s sight, which reaches beyond a person’s own verdict.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.THE THREAD
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,Deuteronomy repeats the same pairing of “right” and “good” under the LORD’s sight. The echo holds straightness and goodness together: what is good has a straight course visible to God.
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