What Does 2 Kings 15:9 Mean in the King James?
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: 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
One Hebrew root names both Israel’s “sins” and Jeroboam “making Israel sin”: the same missing is repeated and then reproduced.
THE MEANING
The verse names a live pattern: what remains unturned keeps repeating, and its influence can draw others into the same missing. A pattern that appears personal can become a shared direction.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that an uncorrected pattern stays private: the same root links repeated missing with leading others into it.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאות
chatta'ot
GROWS FROM
חטא
chata
To miss or go wrong; a missing.
“sins / made Israel to sin” in this verse is chatta'ot. The two English phrases rest on one seed: חטא (chata, to miss or go wrong). The verse names both the missing itself and the act of leading others into missing with that root, so repetition and influence are one mechanism in the line.
ALSO GROWS
chet: A missing or offense.
חֵטְא
It names the kind of repeated wrongness expressed as “sins” in the verse.
hecheti: Caused to miss; led into missing.
הֶחֱטִיא
This causative form carries the same root from the king’s repeated missing to its spread through Israel.
סָר
sar
GROWS FROM
סור
sur
To turn aside or depart; in causative forms, to remove or take away.
“departed not” in this verse is sar. The form סָר (sar, turned aside or departed) makes the absent motion plain: he does not turn away. A causative branch of סור (sur, turn aside or depart) also means to remove or take away, so the unmade turn is where the old pattern remains.
ALSO GROWS
sur: Turn aside; depart.
סוּר
This is the base verb behind סָר (sar, turned aside or departed) in the verse.
hesir: Remove; take away.
הֵסִיר
The same root extends from turning aside to removing something from its place.
THE PATTERN
An unturned pattern persists through repetition and spreads through the people it shapes.
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?THE THREAD
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.This verse uses חַטָּאות (chatta’ot, missings), חָטָא (chata, missed or did wrong), and הֶחֱטִיא (hecheti, caused to miss), all from חטא (chata, to miss or go wrong). The repeated root makes the link explicit: one person’s missing becomes a path that leads a people into missing with him.
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