What Does 2 Chronicles 33:19 Mean in the King James?
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
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 prayer, God’s response, the wrongdoing, and the humbling remain in one record: being heard does not erase what happened.
THE MEANING
Your plea and God’s response can stand beside the account of what you have done and the places where you established it. Being met does not make the harm imaginary or remove its traces; the record holds both the turning and what came before it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that being heard by God means the wrong and its marks must disappear from the truth of your life.
THE ROOT
וְהֵעָתֶר
wə-hēʿāṯer
GROWS FROM
עתר
ʿ-t-r
To entreat or plead; in a passive form, to be entreated.
“was intreated” in this verse is wə-hēʿāṯer. Hebrew uses this root for both making a plea and being met by one. The verse sets God’s response beside the account of wrongdoing, so being heard does not mean the record has been wiped clean.
ALSO GROWS
ʿātar: To plead or entreat.
עָתַר
This active form names the appeal that lies behind the prayer in the verse.
wayyēʿāter: Was entreated; responded to an entreaty.
וַיֵּעָתֶר
This form appears in Genesis 25:21, where the same root describes the LORD’s response to Isaac’s plea.
הִכָּנְעוֹ
hikkānəʿô
GROWS FROM
כנע
k-n-ʿ
To be brought low or subdued; in a causative form, to humble or subdue.
“humbled” in this verse is hikkānəʿô. The root can describe someone being brought low and the act of bringing someone low. Here, the humbling follows the account of high places and images, yet those former works remain visible in the record.
ALSO GROWS
kānaʿ: To submit or be humbled.
כָּנַע
This form names the lowering that the verse places before the record is written.
hikhniʿa: To subdue or bring low.
הִכְנִיעַ
This causative form shows the same root from the other side: the act of lowering rather than the state of being low.
תְּפִלָּתוֹ
təfillātô
GROWS FROM
פלל
p-l-l
To intercede or make an appeal; in related forms, to judge or mediate.
The word for prayer belongs to a root family associated with intercession and judgment. The verse places the plea alongside God’s response and the deeds that remain named, making prayer part of an open account rather than a private feeling alone.
ALSO GROWS
hitpallel: To pray or intercede.
הִתְפַּלֵּל
This related form makes the appeal in the verse an act of intercession.
palil: A judgment or legal decision.
פָּלִיל
This related word brings the root’s judicial shade alongside the verse’s record of deeds.
THE PATTERN
A humbled plea can change what comes next while leaving the truth of prior harm exposed.
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.THE THREAD
And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.Hebrew repeats the root עתר on both sides: Isaac entreats, and the LORD is entreated. The same response form appears in this verse, so the plea and its answer share a root even while the wrongdoing remains named in the record.
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