What Does 2 Kings 14:28 Mean in the King James?
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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 verse names recovery as a return: power is shown in bringing territory back under a different hand.
THE MEANING
You meet power here through its effects: cities are fought over and reclaimed, and the act is carried into the record. The verb translated “recovered” holds the sense of making something return, so the conquest is also described as a reversal of possession. The verse keeps the violence of that recovery in the frame.
THE ROOT
הֵשִׁיב
heshiv
GROWS FROM
שׁוּב
shuv
to return, turn back, or bring back
The Hebrew verb translated “recovered” grows from שׁוּב (shuv, to return): the action is not only winning territory, but making it come back under another hand. The same root can describe a return or a restoration of life, carrying one motion across very different kinds of loss.
ALSO GROWS
teshuvah: return, turning
תְּשׁוּבָה
It names the motion of coming back that the verse makes concrete in the recovery of cities.
yeshovev: he restores, brings back
יְשׁוֹבֵב
Psalm 23:3 uses this form for restoring a נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, living soul), showing the root can describe return of life as well as territory.
THE PATTERN
Return reverses displacement by bringing what has been lost or has wandered back toward its place.
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;THE THREAD
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.The Hebrew behind “restoreth” is יְשׁוֹבֵב (yeshovev, brings back), from the same root שׁוּב (shuv, return) as “recovered” here. The pairing places the recovery of territory beside the return of the נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, living soul), without dissolving either into the other.
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