What Does 2 Chronicles 25:19 Mean in the King James?
Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
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 victory is real, but the heart turns it into self-made weight, and that weight carries the winner toward a fall shared by others.
THE MEANING
A genuine success can still make the heart carry you into overreach. The next reach risks bringing down both the person pursuing it and those joined to that person. The verse speaks into the moment when triumph starts to feel like permission.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that one victory makes every next expansion safe: success can inflate the heart’s reach, with consequences that spread to others.
THE ROOT
לְהַכְבִּיד
le-hakhbîd
GROWS FROM
כבד
K-B-D
To be heavy or weighty; in this form, to make heavy or weighty.
The KJV’s “boast” translates a form of כבד, whose concrete sense is to make weighty. The verse links the heart’s elevation with a reach for weight, giving the boast a deeper dimension than speech alone.
ALSO GROWS
kavod: Weight; honor or glory.
כָּבוֹד
This familiar word for honor and glory shares the root: the verse’s self-made weight echoes the weight associated with honor.
kaved: Heavy.
כָּבֵד
This branch keeps the root’s physical sense in view: the heart’s attempt to become weighty sits beside the warning that the result may become a burden.
נְשָׂאֲךָ
nesa'akha
GROWS FROM
נשא
N-Ś-ʾ
To lift, carry, or bear.
“lifteth thee up” in this verse is nesa'akha. The Hebrew makes the heart the subject that lifts and carries the king. The same root can name bearing a load, so the elevation already holds the possibility of being carried into consequences.
ALSO GROWS
massa: A burden or load.
מַשָּׂא
The root’s sense of carrying connects the heart’s upward pull with the burden that overreach can bring.
nasi: A leader or prince; one raised up.
נָשִׂיא
This branch carries the sense of being elevated, echoing how the heart raises the king in this verse.
THE PATTERN
When success becomes self-exaltation, it can turn into overreach and bring a fall.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.THE THREAD
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.The words translated “honour” here come from the same כבד root behind “boast” in Chronicles. One verse warns against making oneself weighty; the other links honor with weight received through honoring the LORD.
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