What Does 2 Kings 15:26 Mean in the King James?
And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are 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 Hebrew uses דבר (dābār, “word” or “matter”) for both the king’s “acts” and their “chronicles,” carrying what he did forward as words among the days.
THE MEANING
A brief account does not hold all that has been done; what remains is still written beyond the visible line. Your life, too, is larger than any single sentence that names it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that whatever a brief account leaves out has disappeared.
THE ROOT
דִּבְרֵי
divrei
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; word, matter, or affair.
English gives “acts” and “chronicles” separate labels, but Hebrew uses the same root for both. The deeds are gathered into the “words of the days,” so what is done becomes something spoken and remembered.
ALSO GROWS
dābār: Word; matter or affair.
דָּבָר
The same word holds both what is spoken and what takes place.
divrei hayamim: Words or matters of the days; chronicles.
דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים
The book’s name repeats the root used for Pekahiah’s acts, linking the deeds to their written record.
פְּקַחְיָה
Peqaḥyah
GROWS FROM
פקח
To open, especially the eyes.
Pekahiah (Peqaḥyah) joins פָּקַח (pāqaḥ, “open the eyes”) with יה (Yah, the divine name): “Yah opens.” The name’s language of opened sight sits beside a verse that points beyond the small portion visible in its account.
ALSO GROWS
pāqaḥ: To open, especially the eyes.
פָּקַח
This verb is the seed of the opening carried in Pekahiah’s name.
piqqēaḥ: Seeing; one whose eyes are open.
פִּקֵּחַ
This related form makes the name’s opening specifically about sight.
THE PATTERN
What a brief account leaves outside it remains within a larger record.
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.THE THREAD
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.Genesis 15:1 uses דבר (dābār, “word” or “matter”) for both “these things” and “the word of the LORD.” That shared root opens the pairing here: deeds and words belong to one field, so what is done can be gathered into the words of the days.
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