What Does 2 Kings 15:3 Mean in the King James?
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
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
“Right” means straight: the verse pictures a way that holds its line in the LORD’s sight and can be carried from father to son.
THE MEANING
A life can be straight in the LORD’s sight, and its shape can come through a pattern already lived by someone before it. What one generation does may become the next generation’s path.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that rightness must be invented alone: a straight way can be received and lived forward.
THE ROOT
הַיָּשָׁר
hayyāšār
GROWS FROM
ישר
To be straight, level, or upright.
The word translated “right” carries the image of straightness and levelness. The verse makes rightness a line held true in the LORD’s sight, a way of life that can be followed and passed on.
ALSO GROWS
yāšār: Straight; upright.
יָשָׁר
This branch makes the verse’s “right” a quality of a way that holds its direction.
yōšer: Straightness; uprightness.
יֹשֶׁר
It names the underlying quality that the verse sees in a person’s way.
mēšārîm: Levelness; uprightness; equity.
מֵישָׁרִים
It extends straightness into the idea of level paths, a line another person can walk.
עָשָׂה
ʿāśâ
GROWS FROM
עשה
To do or make.
“did” in this verse is ʿāśâ. The same doing word describes the king and his father. The verse shows inherited conduct as something made in one life and made again in another.
ALSO GROWS
maʿăśeh: Deed; work.
מַעֲשֶׂה
A deed is what doing leaves behind, and those deeds become the pattern the verse names.
ʿōśeh: One who does or makes.
עֹשֶׂה
This branch keeps the focus on the person whose repeated actions shape a way of life.
THE PATTERN
A way of life becomes transmissible when someone lives it before another person.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.THE THREAD
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.“Right paths” comes from the same ישר family as the verse’s “right,” so both carry the image of straightness that can be traveled. Proverbs opens that straightness as a path someone can teach and another can follow.
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