What Does 2 Chronicles 26:14 Mean in the King James?
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
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 word translated “prepared” carries the sense of setting something firmly in place, making readiness a material condition shared across the whole force.
THE MEANING
You meet protection here as something tangible and distributed: shields and armor cover bodies, while spears, bows, and slings make violence possible at close and long range. The verse holds the scene plainly: this preparation guards bodies and equips them to harm.
THE ROOT
וַיָּכֶן
wayyāḵēn
GROWS FROM
כון
To be firm or established; in a causative form, to set in place or prepare.
The verb comes from כון (kun), whose basic sense is being firm or established. The same root can describe a fixed heart or an established place, so “prepared” carries the sense of readiness given a settled form.
ALSO GROWS
nakhon: Established, firm, or ready.
נָכוֹן
Psalm 112:7 uses this form for a heart that is “fixed,” showing that the root can describe inward steadiness as well as outward preparation.
māḵōn: An established place, dwelling, or foundation.
מָכוֹן
Exodus 15:17 uses this word for a place prepared as a dwelling, extending the root’s sense of setting something firmly in place.
THE PATTERN
Readiness takes durable form when what is needed is prepared and placed within reach before the moment of need.
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:THE THREAD
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.The same root appears in “fixed” as נָכוֹן (nakhon, established or steady) and in Uzziah’s “prepared” as וַיָּכֶן (wayyāḵēn, he set in place or prepared). The root links equipment arranged into readiness with a heart established in trust, while each verse gives readiness a different form.
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