What Does 2 Kings 13:2 Mean in the King James?
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
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 uses the same root for Jeroboam’s “sins” and his making Israel “sin”: one person’s missing becomes a people’s missing.
THE MEANING
A repeated wrong can spread beyond the person who carries it and shape what a whole community follows. When no one turns aside from the pattern, it continues to hold its place in the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a leader’s choices stay private and cannot shape the people who follow.
THE ROOT
חַטֹּאות
chatta’ot
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥṭʾ
To miss, or to miss the mark.
“sins / made Israel to sin” in this verse is chatta’ot. English makes “sins” a noun and “made Israel to sin” a separate action. Hebrew repeats the same root across both: the missing that marks Jeroboam’s pattern is also what he causes Israel to share.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss, to miss the mark.
חָטָא
This verb is the root behind both the pattern named as Jeroboam’s sins and the act of making Israel sin.
chatta’t: Sin, a missing.
חַטָּאת
The noun behind “sins” shares its root with the verb translated “to sin,” joining the ruler’s conduct to its effect on the people.
THE PATTERN
A leader’s repeated deviation can spread through the people whose direction the leader shapes.
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.THE THREAD
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.The Hebrew repeats the חטא root in the “sins of Jeroboam,” his having “sinned,” and his making Israel sin. That shared root makes the transmission plain: the people’s missing grows from the ruler’s own pattern.
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