What Does 2 Kings 14:18 Mean in the King James?
And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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 word-family for Amaziah’s “acts” and their “chronicles,” joining what is done with the words that preserve it.
THE MEANING
This line shows that what appears in one passage is only the portion named there; the remaining deeds belong to a wider telling. The record points beyond its own words, and what it leaves unspoken is not thereby erased.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that what a passage does not recount is therefore lost: the verse itself points to a fuller record beyond the line.
THE ROOT
דִּבְרֵי
divrei
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak; word, matter, or thing.
“acts / chronicles” in this verse is divrei. The Hebrew term rendered “acts” and the phrase rendered “chronicles” share this word-family; the latter literally means “words of the days.” That repeated naming connects what is done with the telling that carries it: both are matters preserved in the account.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word; matter or thing.
דָּבָר
This noun shows how the root can name both something spoken and a matter at hand, linking the deeds in the verse with their record.
dibber: He spoke; to speak.
דִּבֵּר
This verbal form makes the root’s connection to speech visible: the deeds are preserved in words that can be told.
THE PATTERN
A written telling can acknowledge the deeds its present page does not contain.
And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.THE THREAD
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.“Word” here comes from the same Hebrew root as the words for “acts” and “chronicles” in 2 Kings. That root’s range joins speech with matters and things, opening a connection between what is spoken, what comes to be, and what a written account preserves.
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