What Does 2 Chronicles 33:2 Mean in the King James?
But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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 Hebrew root behind “cast out” also means “inherit,” holding those who receive the land and those driven from it inside one word-family.
THE MEANING
This verse places a person’s conduct beside what is evil in the LORD’s sight and names its likeness to practices associated with people driven from the land. It exposes how holding a place does not make a destructive pattern harmless; the same kind of conduct can carry the shadow of dispossession.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that receiving a place makes a person’s way immune to judgment: possession does not itself mean approval.
THE ROOT
הוֹרִישׁ
hôrîš
GROWS FROM
ירשׁ
y-r-sh
To take possession or inherit; in the causative form, to dispossess or drive out.
The verb translated “cast out” is causative: it means to make someone lose possession. The same root can name inheriting possession, so removal and receipt are two sides of one transfer.
ALSO GROWS
yāraš: To possess, inherit, or dispossess, depending on form and context.
יָרַשׁ
The same root spans receiving possession and taking possession from another.
yerushah: Inheritance or possession.
יְרֻשָּׁה
This noun names what is gained through the same possession movement.
hôrîš: To dispossess or drive out.
הוֹרִישׁ
This is the form in the verse, describing the former occupants’ loss of possession.
THE PATTERN
What a people makes normal can become the measure by which it is displaced.
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.THE THREAD
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.“Inherit” translates yāraš (יָרַשׁ), “take possession,” the same root behind this verse’s “cast out.” The word-family holds receiving the land and losing it together, so the comparison carries a consequence beneath the surface.
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