What Does 2 Chronicles 27:6 Mean in the King James?
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.
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
Jotham, יוֹתָם (Yotam), “YHWH is complete”, becomes strong as his ways are made firm before YHWH, binding strength to a path shaped by divine wholeness.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks now: your strength takes shape as your lived path is made firm before God. Jotham’s name, יוֹתָם (Yotam), means “YHWH is complete,” and the verse’s movement from prepared ways to might echoes a life ordered before that wholeness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that might proves self-sufficiency; here strength is tied to a path prepared before God.
THE ROOT
הֵכִין
hekin
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To be firm or established; in this verb form, to make firm, set in place, or prepare.
“Prepared” carries the sense of making a way firm and settled. The verse links Jotham’s strength to the ordering of his path before God, not merely to a plan he makes for himself.
ALSO GROWS
nakhon: Firm, established, or secure.
נָכוֹן
This related form shows the settled condition toward which preparation moves.
makon: A fixed place, dwelling, or foundation.
מָכוֹן
The same root can describe a place made stable, giving “prepared” the feel of setting a life on firm ground.
וַיִּתְחַזֵּק
vayitchazzeq
GROWS FROM
חזק
chazaq
To be strong or firm, strengthen, or take hold.
“became mighty” in this verse is vayitchazzeq. The form describes Jotham becoming strong or strengthening himself. The root holds strength together with firmness and grasp: might here is not only force, but the capacity to hold steady.
ALSO GROWS
chazaq: Strong or firm.
חָזָק
This adjective makes visible the firmness contained in “became mighty.”
chizzeq: To strengthen or reinforce.
חִזֵּק
This related verb presents strength as something made firm, echoing the prepared ways in the verse.
דְּרָכָיו
derakhav
GROWS FROM
דרך
darak
To tread, step, or travel along.
“Ways” are not only abstract principles; the root evokes a track made by walking. Preparing his ways means making the course of his lived steps firm before God.
ALSO GROWS
derek: A way, path, or course.
דֶּרֶךְ
This familiar branch names the route made by repeated steps.
darak: To tread, step, or march.
דָּרַךְ
The verb reveals the physical action held inside the idea of a “way.”
THE PATTERN
A life grows firm as its path is set in relation to God.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.THE THREAD
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.“Established” translates a form of כון (kun), the same root behind “prepared” in 2 Chronicles 27:6. Proverbs makes the connection explicit: the way made firm is the path prepared.
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