What Does 2 Chronicles 26:2 Mean in the King James?
He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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 “restored” means “brought back,” so the verse names return, not mere construction, as the completion of the work.
THE MEANING
Restoration can continue after the person at the center of power is gone. What is rebuilt is not only made usable; it is returned to the people and place where it belongs.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A ruler’s ending does not make every unfinished restoration impossible; here the king’s death and the city’s return occupy the same sentence.
THE ROOT
וַיְשִׁיבֶהָ
wayeshiveha
GROWS FROM
שׁוּב
Shuv means to turn back or return; in the causative form used here, it means to cause something to return, to bring it back.
“restored” in this verse is wayeshiveha. English “restore” can sound like repairing an object; this Hebrew form says “cause it to return.” The work reaches beyond rebuilding: Eloth is brought back into Judah’s belonging.
ALSO GROWS
hēshîḇ: To bring back, return, or restore.
הֵשִׁיב
This causative form makes clear that restoration is an act of returning something to its place.
teshuvah: Return, or turning back.
תְּשׁוּבָה
It carries the same movement of turning back that underlies Eloth’s return to Judah.
THE PATTERN
Restoration returns what has been displaced to the people, place, or relationship it belongs with.
A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.THE THREAD
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.The root שׁוּב (shuv), “turn back, return,” carries the sense of “restored” here and appears in Jeremiah’s “bring again” and “return.” In both verses, restoration is a movement back into place and belonging.
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