What Does 2 Chronicles 29:1 Mean in the King James?
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
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
Hezekiah’s name means “Yah strengthens,” placing his finite reign inside strength that is received rather than self-made.
THE MEANING
Your life takes shape within measured years, with strength and place woven into it. Hezekiah’s name carries “Yah strengthens,” and his twenty-nine-year reign unfolds in Yerushalayim, a name carrying wholeness. The verse holds received strength, finite time, and wholeness together.
THE ROOT
חִזְקִיָּהוּ
Ḥizqiyyāhû
GROWS FROM
חזק
ḥ-z-q
To be strong, grow firm, or strengthen; the name means “Yah strengthens.”
“Hezekiah” in this verse is Ḥizqiyyāhû. The name compresses strength and its source into one identity: strength comes from Yah. That name stands beside a reign with a defined span, so strength here is held within time rather than possessed without limit.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāzaq: To be strong, become firm, or prevail.
חָזַק
This verb is the living action inside the name, not merely a description of a trait.
ḥāzāq: Strong or firm.
חָזָק
The adjective shows the same root describing a state of strength.
heḥĕzîq: To hold fast or grasp.
הֶחֱזִיק
The root can name strength as something held, connecting power with what sustains it.
וַיִּמְלֹךְ
vayyimlokh
GROWS FROM
מלך
m-l-k
To reign or rule as king.
English can make “reigned” sound like a span of time alone. Its root also gives “king” and “kingdom,” placing the ruler’s years within a shared order that includes a people and a place.
ALSO GROWS
melekh: King.
מֶלֶךְ
The same root names the person who holds the office described by “reigned.”
malkhut: Kingship or kingdom.
מַלְכוּת
This branch shows that the act of reigning belongs to a wider realm, not just one person’s tenure.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
Wholeness, completeness, or being intact; the name carries the sense of shalom, wholeness.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. The verse places the reign in Yerushalayim, whose name carries shalom, wholeness. Its -ayim ending echoes a dual form, giving the place name a doubled resonance of wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness or well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
This branch lets the city’s name carry a quality beyond its role as a location.
shalem: Whole or intact.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes wholeness concrete: what is complete and undivided.
THE PATTERN
Strength that sustains human authority is received from God and remains present within human limits.
Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.THE THREAD
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.“Strengthen” here is חַזְּקוּ (ḥazzəqû, strengthen), from the same root חזק (ḥ-z-q, be strong or strengthen) carried in Hezekiah’s name חִזְקִיָּהוּ (Ḥizqiyyāhû, Yah strengthens). In one verse the root lives in a name; in the other, it meets weakness at the hands and knees.
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