What Does 2 Kings 24:3 Mean in the King James?
Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
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
Judah’s removal is tied to “sins” rooted in חטא (chata, “to miss”), making this judgment a consequence of acts that have gone wrong.
THE MEANING
The verse places before you the severe truth that consequences can reach beyond the person who acts: Judah is removed, and the stated cause is Manasseh’s conduct. It names the removal as happening at the LORD’s command and holds its force plainly: the people are taken from before his face.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a ruler’s actions end with the ruler. Here, the consequence reaches a whole people.
THE ROOT
בְּחַטֹּאות
bechatto’t
GROWS FROM
חטא
To miss, fail, or go wrong.
The word rendered “sins” is חַטֹּאות (chatto’t), from חטא (chata, “to miss”). The root gives the verse’s charge a sense of acts going wrong, while the passage shows those acts carrying consequences across a people.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss or do wrong.
חָטָא
The verb makes the root’s sense of missing an action, not merely a label.
chatta’t: Sin; an offering for the missing.
חַטָּאת
The noun carries the same root into both the act named here and, elsewhere, the response to that missing.
chote: One who misses or does wrong.
חוֹטֵא
This form names the person through the same action the verse attributes to Manasseh.
לְהָסִיר
lehasir
GROWS FROM
סור
To turn aside or depart; in a causative form, to remove.
“Remove” comes from a form of סור (sur, “turn aside, depart”). The wording presents Judah as made to depart from before the LORD’s face, a phrasing repeated elsewhere in Kings.
ALSO GROWS
sur: To turn aside or depart.
סוּר
This is the root’s basic motion beneath the removal in the verse.
hesir: To remove or take away.
הֵסִיר
This causative form makes someone depart, matching the force of the verse’s wording.
sar: Turned aside or departed.
סָר
This related form shows the same root describing departure as a state.
מְנַשֶּׁה
Menashsheh
GROWS FROM
נשה
To forget; in the name form, associated with “causing to forget.”
The name מְנַשֶּׁה (Menashsheh, “Manasseh”) is linked in Genesis 41:51 to נָשָׁה (nashah, “forget”). Here the verse keeps Manasseh’s deeds in view as the stated cause of Judah’s removal, placing that name’s echo of forgetting beside an account that remembers.
ALSO GROWS
nashah: To forget.
נָשָׁה
Genesis 41:51 connects this verb with the naming of Manasseh.
Menashsheh: Manasseh; associated with causing to forget.
מְנַשֶּׁה
The name appears here attached to deeds the text does not let disappear from view.
THE PATTERN
The acts of one person can extend into consequences borne by many.
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:THE THREAD
Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.“Removed” here and “to remove” in this verse come from סור (sur, “turn aside or depart”), and both use the phrase “out of his sight.” The earlier verse makes this a recurring scriptural picture of a people being taken from before the LORD’s face.
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