What Does 2 Kings 24:20 Mean in the King James?
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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 city named for wholeness is cast from the LORD’s face as its king breaks allegiance.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s אַף (aph, anger/heat, also nostril) carries Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, Yerushalayim, bearing שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness)) and Judah into expulsion from his face. Zedekiah (צִדְקִיָּהוּ, Tsidqiyahu, “YHWH is righteousness/alignment”) rebels against Babylon’s king, placing the name’s alignment beside a break in allegiance.
THE ROOT
הִשְׁלִיכוֹ
hishlikho
GROWS FROM
שׁלך
shalakh
Throw, cast; the root names a forceful movement away.
The verb keeps the physical motion of throwing inside “cast them out.” The same root can express exile from presence or placing a burden onto the LORD, so its force carries both expulsion and transfer.
ALSO GROWS
hashlikheni: cast me away
הַשְׁלִיכֵנִי
Psalm 51:11 uses the same form in a plea against removal from God’s presence.
hashlekh: cast, throw
הַשְׁלֵךְ
Psalm 55:22 uses the same root for casting a burden onto the LORD, showing the verb’s physical force.
פָּנָיו
panav
GROWS FROM
פנה
panah
Turn, face toward.
The phrase “from his presence” names a face, making the image relational and spatial at once. Casting Judah from that face makes separation visible as distance from the one whose presence defines the sentence.
ALSO GROWS
panim: face; presence
פָּנִים
The plural form can name the face and, by extension, the presence from which Judah is cast.
panah: turn, face toward
פָּנָה
The related verb keeps orientation inside the image of a face turned toward someone.
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שלם
shalem
Wholeness, completeness.
“Jerusalem” in this verse is Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim carries shalom, wholeness, with a dual ending, the two wholenesses. The sentence places that named wholeness under expulsion from the LORD’s face, setting the city’s nature beside rupture.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: wholeness
שָׁלוֹם
This branch carries the wholeness embedded in Jerusalem’s name.
shalem: whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the root’s sense of completeness audible beside the city’s expulsion.
THE PATTERN
Scripture portrays rupture through the loss of God’s face and the breaking of human allegiance.
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;THE THREAD
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.Psalm 51:11 uses the same root שׁלך (shalakh, throw/cast) for “cast me away” and the same face word פָּנִים (panim, face/presence). It turns the collective expulsion here into a singular plea against that removal, making the distance from God’s presence concrete.
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