What Does 2 Chronicles 30:14 Mean in the King James?
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
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 root קום (qum, “rise, stand”) also forms מקום (maqom, “place”): the people rise to change what stands in Jerusalem.
THE MEANING
For you now, the verse makes clearing tangible: what occupies the center is removed and cast away, so the practice it sustains cannot keep its place. The action moves all the way from rising to disposal; nothing is merely renamed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a practice can end while the thing that sustains it remains in place.
THE ROOT
וַיָּקֻמוּ
wayyaqumu
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
to rise, stand, or be established
“arose” in this verse is wayyaqumu. The root that means “rise” also forms מקום (maqom, “place”), the place where something stands. The people rise and then remove what occupies Jerusalem, linking their movement to a change in what remains there.
ALSO GROWS
maqom: place
מָקוֹם
The shared root ties a place to what stands in it; here, rising leads to changing what occupies the city.
heqim: raise, establish
הֵקִים
This form shows the root can describe establishing something; the verse’s rising is followed by removing structures from their place.
הַמְקַטְּרוֹת
ha-meqatterot
GROWS FROM
קטר
q-t-r
to burn incense or make smoke rise
“altars for incense” in this verse is ha-meqatterot. The Hebrew term names these altars by what they do: they make incense smoke rise. The removal reaches beyond an object to the structures that sustain that act.
ALSO GROWS
qatar: burn incense, make smoke rise
קָטַר
The verb names the action these altars enable, so their removal interrupts the practice at its source.
qetoret: incense
קְטֹרֶת
This related noun names what is burned; the verse removes the places built to produce it.
וַיַּשְׁלִכוּ
wayyashlikhu
GROWS FROM
שלך
sh-l-k
to throw or cast
“cast” in this verse is wayyashlikhu. The verb carries the removal through to disposal: the altars are thrown into the brook, not simply taken out of sight. The root makes the finality of the action concrete.
ALSO GROWS
shalakh: throw, cast
שָׁלַךְ
This is the root’s basic action, describing how the altars are disposed of.
hishlikh: throw down, cast away
הִשְׁלִיךְ
This related form emphasizes a decisive casting away, matching the verse’s movement from removal to disposal.
THE PATTERN
Restoration becomes visible when the objects or structures sustaining a rival practice are physically removed.
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.THE THREAD
To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.“Arise” here and in this verse comes from קום (qum, “rise, stand”). In this passage people rise and remove the altars; in the psalm, God’s arising is paired with enemies scattering, linking rising with a change in what can remain in place.
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