What Does 2 Chronicles 16:11 Mean in the King James?

And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 16:11 · 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

The Hebrew calls Asa’s “acts” ⁨דִּבְרֵי⁩ (divrê, “words/matters of”), so a life’s record gathers more than deeds alone.

THE MEANING

Your life is more than the moment currently in view: it is a whole account, from first to last. The word translated “acts” also means “words” or “matters,” so what is said and what is done belong to one telling.

THE ROOT

דִּבְרֵי

divrê

GROWS FROM

ד־ב־ר

d-b-r

To speak; a word, matter, or thing.

The verse’s “acts” is ⁨דִּבְרֵי⁩ (divrê), the construct plural of ⁨דָּבָר⁩ (davar): “words” or “matters.” Hebrew holds sayings and matters in one word-family, so the record reads as a telling of a life’s substance, not merely a tally of actions.

ALSO GROWS

davar: Word, matter, or thing.

דָּבָר

This is the singular form behind “acts,” revealing that the account can hold a life’s matters as well as its deeds.

dibber: He spoke.

דִּבֵּר

The speaking branch shows how a life’s matters can also be gathered into a telling.

THE PATTERN

Scripture presents a life as something held in a record, with its formation, words, and works visible beyond the passing moment.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 139:16 · KJVThe life held in view here is recorded even in its forming, before its members take shape.

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

Malachi 3:16 · KJVWords spoken between people enter a book of remembrance, showing that speech, too, belongs in the record.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Revelation 20:12 · KJVThe opened books hold written works, carrying the pattern of a life’s record into judgment.

THE THREAD

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 · KJV

Both passages use ⁨דָּבָר⁩ (davar, “word/matter”): Asa’s “acts” are matters, while Deuteronomy names the commanded word. The shared root lets a record of a life read as a telling, not merely an inventory.

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