What Does 2 Kings 13:5 Mean in the King James?
(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
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 deliverance here is complete when Israel is free to move out from under another’s hand and dwell at home again.
THE MEANING
Deliverance is both release from another’s grip and a return to a place where life can settle. The verse holds escape and restored ordinary life together, speaking to you now as a movement from constraint into room to live.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that rescue is complete as soon as the danger stops; here, deliverance also restores the ability to dwell.
THE ROOT
מוֹשִׁיעַ
mōšîaʿ
GROWS FROM
יָשַׁע
yasha
To deliver, bringing someone out from constriction into spaciousness.
“saviour” in this verse is mōšîaʿ. The root holds the movement of deliverance, not just the identity of a rescuer. Israel’s release from the Syrians’ hand opens into room to live again.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
The noun names the opening itself: being brought out from constraint.
hoshia: To deliver, bring out
הוֹשִׁיעַ
The same root can name the act that releases someone, as well as the deliverer who brings it about.
יָשְׁבוּ
yāšəḇû
GROWS FROM
יָשַׁב
yashav
To sit, remain, or dwell.
“dwelt” in this verse is yāšəḇû. This root carries both sitting and staying: freedom reaches its settled form when people can remain in their own dwelling. “As beforetime” makes that restored inhabitation part of the deliverance itself.
ALSO GROWS
yoshev: One who sits or dwells; an inhabitant
יֹשֵׁב
The branch describes a person who can remain in a place, not merely pass through it.
moshav: Dwelling place or settlement
מוֹשָׁב
The root also names the place of settled life that the verse says Israel inhabits again.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance breaks another’s hold and makes a settled life possible again.
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.THE THREAD
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.“Salvation” here is יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah), deliverance from the same yasha root behind “saviour” in 2 Kings. The connection opens the word beyond the rescuer: deliverance itself is named as what God becomes to the speaker.
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