What Does 2 Chronicles 36:16 Mean in the King James?
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
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
After contempt has run its course, the verse ends at the stark absence of healing.
THE MEANING
The verse names a chain that speaks now: God’s messengers are mocked, his words despised, and his prophets misused until the LORD’s anger rises against his people and healing is gone. Wherever ridicule answers warning and contempt becomes settled, the verse names the consequence without softening it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that warning can be mocked forever without consequence is undone here: the verse ends with the people’s healing gone.
THE ROOT
מַרְפֵּא
marpēʾ
GROWS FROM
רפא
To heal; to restore to health.
“remedy” in this verse is marpēʾ. The Hebrew מַרְפֵּא (marpēʾ, “healing”) comes from רָפָא (rapha, “to heal”). The line ends not merely with counsel unavailable, but with healing itself absent; the same root family also names the healer and the act of healing.
ALSO GROWS
rapha: To heal.
רָפָא
This verb makes clear that “no remedy” names the absence of healing.
rofe: Healer.
רֹפֵא
The root can name the one who heals, showing how completely the verse’s final phrase closes off that possibility.
refu'ah: Healing; cure.
רְפוּאָה
This noun carries the restoration that the verse says is no longer present.
THE PATTERN
Repeated refusal of God’s voice turns warning into a dividing line, with consequences the refusal cannot hold back.
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!THE THREAD
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.Both verses end with אֵין מַרְפֵּא (ʾēn marpēʾ, “there is no healing”). Proverbs states the warning; Chronicles names the point where that absence arrives.
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