What Does 2 Chronicles 25:9 Mean in the King James?

And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

2 Chronicles 25:9 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The answer does not erase what Amaziah has given; it reveals that what is already given does not exhaust what the LORD can give.

THE MEANING

What has left your hand does not set the limit of what remains possible. The verse holds the cost in view while showing that the LORD’s capacity to give exceeds it.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that a loss fixes the ceiling on what can come next.

THE ROOT

נָתַתִּי

natatti

GROWS FROM

נתן

n-t-n

To give, set, or place.

“given / give” in this verse is natatti. Amaziah says, “I have given,” and the reply says the LORD can “give”: both verbs grow from the same root, ⁨נ־ת־ן⁩. The repeated root shifts the focus from what has gone out of Amaziah’s hand to the greater capacity to give that remains.

ALSO GROWS

natan: Gave; set; placed.

נָתַן

This verb shares the root of both “I have given” and “to give,” tying Amaziah’s past outlay to the reply’s possibility.

mattanah: Gift; something given.

מַתָּנָה

The noun keeps the same seed: what is received is understood as something given, extending the verse’s repeated giving beyond a single verb.

יָכוֹל

yakhol

GROWS FROM

יכל

y-k-l

To be able, prevail, or have capacity.

The reply centers capacity: the LORD is able to give “much more than this.” The verse names an ability that is not bounded by the amount already spent.

ALSO GROWS

yakhol: Is able; can.

יָכוֹל

This is the form behind “is able,” placing capacity, not a promise of an identical repayment, at the center of the reply.

yekholet: Ability; capacity.

יְכֹלֶת

This related noun makes the root’s emphasis explicit: the answer turns on what can be given.

THE PATTERN

What has already been given does not measure the full reach of divine giving.

That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

Psalm 104:28 · KJVThe same Hebrew root for “give” appears as provision flows from an open hand and is gathered.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

James 1:5 · KJVThe verse presents God’s giving as generous and ungrudging, extending beyond one kind of need.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

2 Corinthians 9:8 · KJV“Is able” echoes the capacity named in Chronicles, while abundance exceeds what is presently in hand.

THE THREAD

That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

Psalm 104:28 · KJV

The Hebrew verb translated “givest” comes from ⁨נתן⁩, the same root repeated in Amaziah’s “I have given” and the reply that the LORD can “give.” The open hand and gathered provision make visible the shift in the exchange: what has been given away does not exhaust the giver’s capacity.

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