What Does 2 Chronicles 18:19 Mean in the King James?
And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
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 fall is already named; the open question is who will draw Ahab into it.
THE MEANING
The verse holds two things together: Ahab’s fall is named, yet the way he reaches it remains a question answered by many voices. Persuasion here carries him toward a danger already in view. The scene speaks now wherever competing voices shape a choice whose cost is visible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that danger always arrives as an obvious threat; here it comes through enticement and competing proposals.
THE ROOT
יְפַתֶּה
yefatteh
GROWS FROM
פתה
Pathah (פתה) means to entice, persuade, or allure; its related forms also name someone open to persuasion.
The Hebrew verb פתה (pathah, entice or persuade) has an edge of deception as well as attraction. Its related noun פֶּתִי (pethi, a simple or open-to-influence person) shows the vulnerability enticement works upon.
ALSO GROWS
pethi: A simple or open-to-influence person.
פֶּתִי
This branch shows the opening enticement acts through: persuasion can take hold where someone is receptive to it.
pittitani: “You enticed me” or “you deceived me” (Jeremiah 20:7).
פִּתִּיתַנִי
The same root can describe being drawn in with a force that feels deceptive, sharpening the danger in the many voices here.
THE PATTERN
A person can be drawn toward ruin by words or desires that make the fatal path seem chosen.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.THE THREAD
O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.Jeremiah’s “deceived” translates the same root פתה (pathah, entice or persuade) that appears here as “entice.” That shared verb reveals the darker edge in the scene: the many proposals are lures toward a fall already named.
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