What Does 2 Kings 15:18 Mean in the King James?
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from 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
The same root names both Jeroboam’s “sins” and his power to make Israel “sin”: one person’s missing becomes a path others follow.
THE MEANING
A pattern is measured not only by whether you leave it, but by what it teaches others to repeat. One person’s continued missing can become the way a whole community misses. The verse speaks now wherever a repeated pattern shapes a shared life.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a repeated failure is private: a pattern can lead a whole community into the same missing.
THE ROOT
חַטֹּאות
chatta’ot
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss, fail, or incur guilt; here, missing.
“sins / made Israel to sin” in this verse is chatta’ot. The noun “sins” and the verb “made Israel to sin” grow from the same root. The second form is causative: the missing does not stay with the one who repeats it, but draws others into it too.
ALSO GROWS
chata’: To miss or do wrong.
חָטָא
This verb names the missing that persists in the verse’s repeated pattern.
hecheti: To cause someone to miss or lead them into wrong.
הֶחֱטִיא
This causative form shows the pattern extending from one person to Israel.
THE PATTERN
A repeated misalignment can become a pattern others inherit.
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.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 root חטא (chata’, “miss”) appears in both the noun for Jeroboam’s sins and the verb for making Israel sin. The repeated root makes the connection plain: his own missing becomes the missing he leads others into.
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