What Does 2 Kings 13:6 Mean in the King James?
Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
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 same root names both Israel’s “sins” and what Jeroboam causes, so one person’s missing becomes a path a whole people walk.
THE MEANING
Wherever a miss becomes a path, repeated steps keep it active while its supports can remain standing. The verse places the continued walk beside the Asherah still standing in Samaria, showing how a pattern persists both in practice and in what remains in place.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that recognizing a pattern is the same as leaving it; the verse shows the steps continuing and the Asherah still standing.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאוֹת
chatta’ot
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
To miss or fail.
The verse uses this root for Israel’s “sins” and, in a causative form, for what Jeroboam does: he causes Israel to miss. Then the people walk in that same missing, so it becomes an ongoing path rather than a single act.
ALSO GROWS
chata’: To miss or fail.
חָטָא
This verb is the seed behind both the plural “sins” and the causative action in the verse.
hecheti: To cause someone to miss.
הֶחֱטִיא
This causative form appears in “made Israel sin,” showing how one person’s missing can become a shared pattern.
THE PATTERN
A miss can spread from one source into a shared path and persist through repetition.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.THE THREAD
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.This verse repeats the root חטא (ḥ-ṭ-ʾ), “to miss,” in “sins,” “he sinned,” and “he made Israel sin.” It makes the pattern in 2 Kings plain: Jeroboam’s missing becomes a path Israel keeps walking.
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