What Does 2 Kings 10:29 Mean in the King James?
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan.
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
A revolt can remove the old ruler while preserving the old misdirection that ruler built.
THE MEANING
The verse exposes the split between rejecting one visible wrong and keeping the familiar pattern that still directs allegiance. Jehu’s break with Baal does not remove Jeroboam’s calves; the old misdirection remains. The remaining center shows where the break stops.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Breaking with one conspicuous wrong does not mean the whole pattern behind it has been left behind.
THE ROOT
חַטֹּאות
chatta'ot
GROWS FROM
חטא
chata
To miss or go astray; by extension, to sin.
The same root names both the “sins” and Jeroboam’s act of making Israel sin: the causing and the missing belong to one word-family. Jehu keeps not only individual offenses but the mechanism of misdirection that reproduces them.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss; to sin.
חָטָא
This verb shows that “sin” carries the sense of missing, a direction the calves keep alive.
hecheti: To cause to miss; to lead into sin.
הֶחֱטִיא
This causative form appears in “made Israel to sin,” linking Jeroboam’s influence to the same root as the people’s “sins.”
chatta't: Sin; also a sin offering.
חַטָּאת
The noun shares the seed in the verse, showing that the word-family can name both the missing and what is associated with it.
THE PATTERN
A reform stays partial when it removes one rival image but leaves the substitute that organizes allegiance in place.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.THE THREAD
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.The Hebrew noun חַטָּאת (chatta’t, sin) shares the root חטא (chata, miss) with “sins” and “made Israel to sin” here. This verse names the calf arrangement as the point where the people miss their way, showing what Jehu leaves intact.
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