What Does 2 Kings 14:22 Mean in the King James?
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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
“Restored” carries the sense of a caused return: Elath is not only built, but brought back to Judah.
THE MEANING
What can still be built after an ending can be returned to its people. Restoration joins construction with belonging: Elath stands again in relation to Judah.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The end of a ruler’s life does not mean the work of return is over.
THE ROOT
וַיְשִׁבֶהָ
vayeshiveha from shuv
GROWS FROM
שׁ־וּ־ב
To turn back or return; in a causative form, to bring back.
The Hebrew holds return inside “restored”: Elath is brought back into relation with Judah. Restoration here is not only rebuilding a place, but reversing its separation from the people it belongs to.
ALSO GROWS
shuv: To turn or return.
שׁוּב
This is the root motion beneath the restoration: a return toward a former place or relation.
hēshîv: To bring back or restore.
הֵשִׁיב
This causative form makes the return something that happens to Elath: it is brought back to Judah.
יְהוּדָה
Yehudah
GROWS FROM
י־ד־ה
To praise or give thanks.
Judah’s name carries the root of praise. The verse still speaks concretely of Elath’s return to a kingdom, while the name adds another shade: the place is returned to Judah, whose name holds praise.
ALSO GROWS
yādâ: To praise or give thanks.
יָדָה
This root is carried in Judah’s name, coloring the destination of Elath’s return.
tôdâ: Thanksgiving or praise.
תּוֹדָה
This related word shows the praise-bearing language embedded in Judah’s name.
THE PATTERN
Restoration rebuilds what has fallen and returns it to the people or place it belongs to.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:THE THREAD
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.The same root, שׁוּב (shuv), appears in “bring again” and “return.” It opens the word “restored” in 2 Kings: restoration is a return that brings people or places back into belonging.
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