What Does 2 Kings 23:28 Mean in the King James?
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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 book of “chronicles” is literally a book of “words of the days”: what is done becomes a story time can still tell.
THE MEANING
The verse holds a life in view through the work it leaves behind. Josiah’s deeds remain gathered in a record that others can read, so what he does continues to be part of his story.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that what you do vanishes with the moment is undone: deeds can remain in a record beyond the person who did them.
THE ROOT
דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים
divrei hayamim
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; a word, matter, or affair.
“chronicles” in this verse is divrei hayamim. The Hebrew phrase means “words of the days.” The record gathers time into an account: deeds become matters that can still be told.
ALSO GROWS
davar: A spoken word, thing, or affair.
דָּבָר
The record treats what happened as something that can be named and recounted.
dibber: To speak or say.
דִּבֵּר
The root links the written record to speech: what can be told can also be preserved.
עָשָׂה
asah
GROWS FROM
עשה
To do or make.
The verb translated “did” also carries the sense of making. A person’s deeds are what they bring about, and here those deeds become part of a lasting account.
ALSO GROWS
ma'aseh: An act, work, or thing done.
מַעֲשֶׂה
It names the kind of action this verse gathers into a record.
asiyah: The act or process of doing.
עֲשִׂיָּה
It keeps the focus on what is brought about through action, the material of the account.
THE PATTERN
What people do and say can be preserved as a record that outlasts the moment.
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.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
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.The Hebrew verb translated “made” shares the root עשה (asah, to do or make) with “did” in this verse. Genesis shows what has been made being seen; here, what has been done is preserved in a record.
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