What Does 2 Chronicles 26:4 Mean in the King James?

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

2 Chronicles 26:4 · KJV

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 “right” means straight: the verse pictures a life aligned with what is seen in the LORD’s eyes, following a pattern received from a parent.

THE MEANING

Your conduct takes shape along a path that can be inherited, and its measure is whether it is straight in the LORD’s sight. What you receive from those before you can continue through what you do now.

THE ROOT

הַיָּשָׁר

ha-yashar

GROWS FROM

ישר

To be straight, level, or upright.

“Right” carries the image of straightness: a life that holds its line in the LORD’s sight. The same root describes making a path straight, linking rightness with the way a person walks.

ALSO GROWS

yashar: Straight, upright.

יָשָׁר

This is the root’s basic sense, present in the verse’s description of what Uzziah did.

yĕyaššēr: Make straight; direct.

יְיַשֵּׁר

Proverbs uses this form for God directing a person’s paths, connecting rightness with the path itself.

THE PATTERN

A life’s straightness is measured by the LORD’s sight, and its pattern can be carried forward through what is inherited.

And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

1 Kings 15:11 · KJVLike Uzziah, Asa is described as doing what is right in the LORD’s eyes while following a pattern associated with his father.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 3:6 · KJVThe Hebrew word translated “direct” comes from the same root as “right”: straightness describes both the conduct and the path.

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 16:15 · KJVThe verse distinguishes human approval from the measure of what is seen in God’s sight.

THE THREAD

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 3:6 · KJV

“Right” here is yashar, straight or upright; “direct” in Proverbs comes from the same root and means to make straight. The shared word links rightness with a path held straight in the LORD’s sight.

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