What Does 2 Chronicles 29:9 Mean in the King James?
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
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 sword’s violence continues in captivity, reaching the people still alive.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks now wherever violence divides a family between those killed and those carried away: it names both losses. Its words “for this” keep the captivity connected to the violence that brought it about.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that violence ends when the sword falls dissolves here: the people left alive can still be held captive.
THE ROOT
שְׁבִי
shevi
GROWS FROM
שבה
sh-b-h
To take captive, to carry away.
The word for captivity grows from a verb for taking someone captive: it names a condition produced by an act. That root keeps the people in captivity connected to the violence named just before it.
ALSO GROWS
shavah: To take captive, to carry away.
שָׁבָה
This verb shows the action held inside the noun: captivity is the state of being taken.
shavuy: A captive; someone carried away.
שָׁבוּי
This form names the person inside the condition, bringing the verse’s focus back to the sons, daughters, and wives.
THE PATTERN
Violence continues beyond those killed when the people left alive are carried away.
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.THE THREAD
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.Isaiah uses the same שְׁבִי (shevi, captivity) root, placing captives within a promise that their captor’s hold can be broken. It opens the naming of captivity here toward release without denying the harm.
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