What Does 2 Chronicles 16:2 Mean in the King James?
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
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 verb וַיִּשְׁלַח (vayishlach, “sent”) makes this a scene of release: wealth leaves both treasuries and travels toward a foreign throne.
THE MEANING
Silver and gold leave both the LORD’s house and the king’s house as part of Asa’s message to Ben-hadad. A stored resource becomes a relationship offered beyond its source, making reliance visible through the direction of its release. That movement speaks now wherever trust takes material form.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
That sacred wealth stays outside political choice; here, resources from the LORD’s house and the king’s house enter the same act of sending.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׁלַח
vayishlach
GROWS FROM
שלח
shalach
to send out, release, let go
“sent” in this verse is vayishlach. The root holds sending and release together: the text shows both the movement and the letting-go of a guarded resource. Its direction matters, the release runs from the LORD’s and king’s houses toward Ben-hadad.
ALSO GROWS
shilluach: sending away, release, dismissal
שִׁלּוּחַ
This form makes the silver and gold’s departure from the treasuries part of the verb’s meaning, not just a change of location.
shaluaḥ: sent, one who is sent
שָׁלוּחַ
Asa sends the treasure with a message to Ben-hadad; the shared root connects the transfer to the act of dispatching something on another’s behalf.
THE PATTERN
What is held becomes legible by where it is released.
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.THE THREAD
Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.The Hebrew word translated “sent” here is וַיִּשְׁלַח (vayishlach), from שלח (shalach), the same root in the command to Pharaoh, “Let my people go.” There, release breaks a ruler’s grip on people; here, it directs wealth from two houses toward a ruler, making the object and direction of release newly visible.
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