What Does 2 Kings 14:24 Mean in the King James?
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
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
Jeroboam’s “sins” and his making Israel “sin” share one Hebrew root: what a ruler misses becomes a path the people are led to miss.
THE MEANING
A repeated wrong does not stay within one life when a person in power keeps it moving; it becomes a road a whole people can be led along. What persists in leadership remains in the LORD’s sight, even when it has become familiar.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a normalized pattern has lost its harm dissolves here: repetition by a leader spreads its consequences instead of erasing them.
THE ROOT
חַטֹּאות
ḥaṭṭōʾt
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
To miss or fail to reach.
““sins” / “made … to sin”” in this verse is ḥaṭṭōʾt. The verse uses this root for both Jeroboam’s “sins” and his making Israel “sin.” English separates a condition from its influence; Hebrew links the missing itself to what is reproduced in the people.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāṭāʾ: To miss; to sin.
חָטָא
This verb shows the action beneath the noun: sin is a missing, not merely a label.
heḥĕṭîʾ: To cause someone to miss; to lead into sin.
הֶחֱטִיא
This causative form names the spread of the same root from a ruler to Israel.
ḥaṭṭāʾt: Sin; also an offering for the missing.
חַטָּאת
The same root can name both the missing and an offering that addresses it.
THE PATTERN
A leader’s repeated wrong becomes a public path when people are led to repeat it.
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.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 root חטא (ḥ-ṭ-ʾ, to miss) for “sins” and “made Israel to sin.” That same-root link shows a ruler’s missing reproduced in the people, and this verse names the consequence that follows.
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