What Does 2 Chronicles 26:1 Mean in the King James?
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
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
Uzziah’s name says “Yah is my strength,” placing the king’s authority beside a source beyond himself.
THE MEANING
You see authority arrive through a shared act of recognition, even when the one receiving it is young. Uzziah’s name means “Yah is my strength,” holding public power beside a strength that comes from beyond its bearer.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Strength and authority do not have to be self-generated to be real.
THE ROOT
עֻזִּיָּהוּ
ʿUzzīyāhū
GROWS FROM
עזז
ʿ-z-z
To be strong; strength or might.
Uzziah’s name carries the claim “Yah is my strength.” The root grows into words for strength and might, so the name frames power as a relationship to its source, not simply a possession of the king.
ALSO GROWS
ʿōz: Strength or might.
עֹז
This noun is the strength element in Uzziah’s name, placing strength at the center of how his authority is named.
ʿaz: Strong or forceful.
עַז
The same root can describe force in action, showing that the name’s strength is more than an abstract quality.
ʿuzzî: My strength.
עֻזִּי
This form appears in Psalm 28:7, where the speaker names the LORD as “my strength,” echoing the claim carried in Uzziah’s name.
THE PATTERN
Public authority takes shape through recognition and appointment by others.
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:THE THREAD
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.Psalm 28:7 uses עֻזִּי (ʿuzzî), “my strength,” from the same root carried in Uzziah’s name. It makes the name’s claim explicit: strength is named as belonging to the LORD, even when a person bears authority.
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