What Does 2 Chronicles 4:17 Mean in the King James?
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
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 king’s “casting” is a pouring: the bronze takes form where the clay ground receives it.
THE MEANING
The bronze vessels take shape in the Jordan plain, between Succoth and Zeredathah, as the king casts them in clay ground. The Hebrew verb holds pouring and casting together, keeping the making process visible in the word itself.
THE ROOT
יְצָקָם
yəṣāqām
GROWS FROM
יצק
y-ts-q
To pour or cast.
The Hebrew verb יָצַק (yatsaq, “to pour or cast”) describes both this bronze work and liquid poured onto or into something. English “cast” can hide the pouring in the process; the root keeps the flow of material into a receiving space in view.
ALSO GROWS
vayyitsoq: “He poured” oil.
וַיִּצֹק
In Genesis 28:18, the same root describes oil poured onto a stone, showing that it reaches beyond metalwork to pouring liquid onto a surface.
vatitsoq: “She poured” oil.
וַתִּצֹק
In 2 Kings 4:5, the same root describes oil poured into waiting vessels, echoing the receiving space in this verse.
הָאֲדָמָה
ha'adamah
GROWS FROM
אדם
Ground or soil; the word family also links the ground to the human named Adam.
The clay ground is not incidental scenery: it is the material setting in which the bronze takes form. The word adamah (ground) shares its word family with adam (human), the ground-being, joining formed things and the earth that receives them.
ALSO GROWS
adam: Human; ground-being.
אָדָם
Genesis 2:7 joins the human to the adamah, the ground; here, ground is again part of a making process.
adom: Red.
אֲדֹם
The same consonants carry the color of red earth, a close echo of the clay ground named here.
THE PATTERN
Across metalwork, oil, and love, what is poured enters a receiving place and takes effect there.
And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.THE THREAD
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.The same Hebrew verb יָצַק (yatsaq, “to pour or cast”) names the king’s casting here and the widow’s pouring in 2 Kings. Clay receives bronze in one verse; vessels receive oil in the other.
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