What Does 2 Chronicles 17:11 Mean in the King James?
Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
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 places Yehoshaphat (יְהוֹשָׁפָט, “YHWH judges”) beside מַשָּׂא (massa, “tribute”), from נשא (nasa, “carry”), so abundance arrives as weight borne toward a ruler named for judgment.
THE MEANING
Provision in your life can arrive from beyond its boundaries in distinct forms: a gift, a due borne as tribute, and herds counted in abundance. At the center stands Yehoshaphat (יְהוֹשָׁפָט, “YHWH judges”), placing material increase beside the character of the rule receiving it.
THE ROOT
מַשָּׂא
massa
GROWS FROM
נשא
nasa
To lift, carry, or bear.
מַשָּׂא (massa) names tribute as a load borne. The same root can describe one raised to authority and what is borne away, so English “tribute” hides a family of images linking weight, rule, and release.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: To lift, carry, or bear.
נָשָׂא
This verb is the seed behind massa: tribute is pictured as something carried.
nasi: A leader or prince, associated with being raised up.
נָשִׂיא
The lifted-up ruler stands beside the load carried toward him in this verse.
nose avon: Bearing crookedness, with the idiomatic sense of lifting it away or releasing it.
נֹשֵׂא עָוֹן
The same root that gives tribute its image of a burden can also describe crookedness being borne away.
יְהוֹשָׁפָט
Yehoshaphat
GROWS FROM
שפט
shaphat
To judge or decide.
“Jehoshaphat” in this verse is Yehoshaphat. Yehoshaphat combines יהו (Yeho-, a form of YHWH’s name) with שָׁפַט (shaphat, “judge”), giving the sense “YHWH judges.” The name makes judgment the defining nature at the center of the gifts and tribute.
ALSO GROWS
shaphat: To judge or decide.
שָׁפַט
This verb supplies the name’s governing idea: judgment.
mishpat: Judgment, justice, or right order.
מִשְׁפָּט
This branch carries judgment from an act into the order by which a community is governed.
THE PATTERN
The authority of a center becomes visible when distant peoples bring their wealth toward it.
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.THE THREAD
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.מַשָּׂא (massa, “tribute” or “load”) comes from נשא (nasa, “carry, bear”), and that same root appears in Isaiah’s “borne our griefs.” The shared image places a public load carried toward a ruler beside grief borne for the reader, revealing a connection English words conceal.
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