What Does 2 Chronicles 25:25 Mean in the King James?
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
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
Here, one king’s death becomes the measure of how long another life continues.
THE MEANING
A death can mark time for those who remain, while their lives continue into the years that follow. The verse holds both truths together and names the interval: fifteen years.
THE ROOT
וַיְחִי
wayechi
GROWS FROM
חיה
chayah
To live, be alive, or continue living.
“lived” in this verse is wayechi. The Hebrew verb comes from the same root as words for being alive and for life. The verse places that living beside another king’s death, giving its continuation a precise span of fifteen years.
ALSO GROWS
chai: Alive; living.
חַי
This describes the living state carried by the verb “lived.”
chayyim: Life; lives.
חַיִּים
This noun makes visible the shared root behind the act of living and the life that continues after the other king’s death.
THE PATTERN
One person’s death can mark a boundary in time while life continues beyond it.
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:THE THREAD
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.Kings records the same fifteen-year interval with the same Hebrew verb וַיְחִי (wayechi, lived), from חיה (chayah, live). The repeated line makes the measure unmistakable: Amaziah’s life continues for fifteen years after Israel’s king dies.
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