What Does 2 Chronicles 19:1 Mean in the King James?
And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
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 return itself arrives in wholeness, and its destination bears that same promise in its name.
THE MEANING
You can arrive home with peace already accompanying the return; wholeness travels with you rather than waiting at the destination. Jerusalem’s name carries an image of twofold wholeness, placing that image beside the homeward movement.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the assumption that peace means only the absence of conflict: here, peace accompanies a person’s return and names a wholeness carried home.
THE ROOT
שָׁלוֹם
shalom
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole, complete, or sound.
“peace” in this verse is shalom. Shalom is more than a quiet interval: it is wholeness and soundness. The city-name Yerushalayim (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, Jerusalem) carries the echo of shalom with a dual ending, holding the image of wholeness in twofold form.
ALSO GROWS
shalem: Whole, complete, sound.
שָׁלֵם
It shows the verse’s peace as intactness accompanying the return, rather than mere quiet.
shillem: To repay, recompense, or make good.
שִׁלֵּם
The same root can describe making good what is owed, giving shalom a restorative edge.
וַיָּשָׁב
vayashav
GROWS FROM
שוב
To turn back or return.
English “returned” can sound like simply reaching a place; shuv also brings the turn itself into view. The homeward movement reaches its destination “in shalom,” joining return with wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shuv: To return, turn back.
שׁוּב
This is the root’s basic movement, made concrete by the verse’s return home.
teshuvah: Return, turning.
תְּשׁוּבָה
This branch makes the turning within “returned” visible: the homecoming is a change of direction toward home.
יְהוֹשָׁפָט
Yehoshaphat
GROWS FROM
שפט
To judge, decide, or govern with justice; the name means “YHWH judges.”
“Jehoshaphat” in this verse is Yehoshaphat. The name compresses divine judgment into the homecoming: the one named “YHWH judges” returns in shalom. Judgment and wholeness stand together in this line.
ALSO GROWS
shofet: Judge.
שֹׁפֵט
This branch shares the name’s root and makes its judicial meaning audible.
mishpat: Judgment, justice.
מִשְׁפָּט
This branch reveals the justice held inside Jehoshaphat’s name as he returns home.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness can accompany a return and take shape in the place called home.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Psalm 122:6 places the same word, shalom, directly beside Jerusalem. That connection opens this verse’s return as more than reaching a location: wholeness travels with the returning person and belongs to the city as well.
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