What Does 2 Kings 13:13 Mean in the King James?
And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings 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 dead king is laid among his fathers as the next king takes the throne: the office outlasts its occupant.
THE MEANING
A ruler’s life ends, and another takes the seat of rule. The verse holds mortality and continuity together: a human office passes from one occupant to the next, while the person who held it is laid with the dead.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A title or seat does not make its holder permanent; no human reign is the same as the office it occupies.
THE ROOT
וַיֵּשֶׁב
wayyeshev
GROWS FROM
ישב
To sit, dwell, or remain.
English “sat” can sound like a single posture, while יָשַׁב (yashab, sit/dwell/remain) also carries the sense of dwelling and settlement. Jeroboam takes up the seat of rule as Joash is laid with the dead: kingship appears as an occupancy passed between mortal bodies.
ALSO GROWS
moshav: Seat, dwelling place, or settlement.
מוֹשָׁב
This branch makes the throne legible as a seat someone occupies, not as something identical with its occupant.
yoshev: One who sits or dwells; an inhabitant.
יֹשֵׁב
The occupant is defined by being seated in a place, underscoring that a ruler holds the seat for a time.
THE PATTERN
Human lives and offices pass from one generation to the next, even as the larger order continues.
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:THE THREAD
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.The word translated “sitting” is יֹשֵׁב (yoshev, one who sits or dwells), from the same root ישב (yashab, sit/dwell/remain) as “sat” here. Isaiah places a king’s death beside the LORD seated on a throne, opening the contrast between a mortal ruler and a seat that remains.
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