What Does 2 Chronicles 28:5 Mean in the King James?

Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

2 Chronicles 28:5 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The verse names capture as a giving twice: one man is placed into two kings’ hands, and each transfer makes violence concrete.

THE MEANING

Here, a change of hands is never abstract: a man is given into the power of two kings, and the verse names beating, captivity, and slaughter. The repeated giving holds divine agency beside human violence without resolving their tension; that unresolved pairing remains present wherever power and suffering meet.

THE ROOT

נתן

natan

GROWS FROM

נתן

to give, set, or place

The same verb appears twice where English says “delivered.” Its repeated use makes the transfer unmistakable: the first handoff brings beating and mass captivity, and the second ends in slaughter.

ALSO GROWS

vayyitnehu: He gave him or placed him into another’s hand.

וַיִּתְּנֵהוּ

This form names the first transfer, into the king of Syria’s hand.

nittan: He was given or placed.

נִתָּן

This form repeats the same root in the second transfer, into the king of Israel’s hand.

THE PATTERN

The language of handing someone over can sit beside human violence without making that violence disappear.

And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

Judges 2:14 · KJVThe transfer into hostile hands is followed plainly by the harm those hands inflict.

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Acts 2:23 · KJVDivine agency and the violence committed by human hands remain in the same sentence.

THE THREAD

But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.

2 Chronicles 25:20 · KJV

The verb translated “deliver” comes from the same root of giving, and again places people into an enemy’s hand. That parallel sharpens the repeated transfer in this verse while leaving its divine agency and human violence in view.

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