What Does 2 Kings 15:24 Mean in the King James?
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not 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 Hebrew uses the same root for the “sins” the ruler will not leave and the way Jeroboam “made Israel to sin”: one person’s missing becomes a people’s repeated missing.
THE MEANING
A pattern can begin before you, yet continue shaping the people around you when no one turns away from it. What starts as one person’s missing can become a shared direction, still active wherever it is repeated.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that an inherited pattern becomes harmless simply because it is familiar or old.
THE ROOT
חַטֹּאות
chatta’ot
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
To miss, or to cause someone to miss.
““sins” / “made Israel to sin”” in this verse is chatta’ot. The Hebrew uses one root for the missings the ruler does not leave and for Jeroboam’s act of making Israel miss. The wording links a person’s action to a people’s shared direction: the missing is passed on and then remains in place.
ALSO GROWS
chet: A missing, an offense.
חֵטְא
This names the kind of pattern from which the ruler does not turn away.
hecheti: Caused to miss.
הֶחֱטִיא
This is the verb used of Jeroboam, making the spread of the missing an active cause rather than an isolated lapse.
סָר
sar from sur
GROWS FROM
סור
s-w-r
To turn aside or remove.
““departed”” in this verse is sar from sur. The verse describes departure as a turning away, while this root also carries the sense of removing something. The ruler neither turns aside from the pattern nor removes it from the people’s shared life.
ALSO GROWS
sur: Turn aside, depart.
סוּר
This is the movement the verse says does not happen.
hesir: Remove, take away.
הֵסִיר
The related form gives departure the additional sense of taking something out of the way.
THE PATTERN
A missing can become a shared path when a person with influence keeps it in motion.
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?THE THREAD
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.Both verses repeat the same Hebrew root for missing: Jeroboam misses and causes Israel to miss. Together they expose a living mechanism: one person’s missing becomes shared, and it stays active wherever it is not turned aside from.
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