What Does 2 Kings 25:29 Mean in the King James?
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
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 garment changes and the bread continues: care enters confinement without erasing it.
THE MEANING
Confinement can remain real while the visible covering changes and provision becomes regular. You can be constrained and still receive nourishment and a place in another’s presence; the verse holds that care beside the constraint without calling it freedom.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that nothing has changed unless the confinement itself has ended: the garment changes and the daily table continues while the prison remains.
THE ROOT
לְפָנָיו
lefanav
GROWS FROM
פנה
panah
Turn toward; the related face and presence word carries the sense of being before someone.
The Hebrew phrase places his eating before the king’s face, making presence part of the provision. The meal is not described as food delivered at a distance; he eats in another’s regard.
ALSO GROWS
panim: Face; presence
פָּנִים
This face and presence word illuminates “before him”: the bread comes with a place in the king’s presence.
panah: Turn; face toward
פָּנָה
The related verb’s direction toward someone echoes the verse’s setting of a meal before the king.
כִּלְאוֹ
kil'o
GROWS FROM
כלא
kala'
Restrain, withhold, or shut in.
The word for prison belongs to the language of being held back or shut in. The verse keeps that confinement in view even as the prison garments change and daily food is given.
ALSO GROWS
kele': Prison; confinement
כֶּלֶא
This noun names the held-in condition that remains attached to the garments.
kala': Restrain; withhold
כָּלָא
The verb gives the action beneath the prison image: a person is held back or shut in.
וַיְשַׁנֵּא
wayeshanne
GROWS FROM
שנה
shanah
Change; repeat or do again.
“changed” in this verse is wayeshanne. The same root carries both change and repetition. Here the clothing changes, while the repeated daily bread continues through all the days of his life.
ALSO GROWS
shanah: Year; a recurring cycle
שָׁנָה
The word shares the root’s sense of repetition, echoing the verse’s continuing daily provision.
mishneh: Second; double
מִשְׁנֶה
This branch carries the idea of a second instance, another form or state, an echo of the changed garment.
THE PATTERN
Provision can continue within vulnerability before the surrounding constraint has ended.
Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.Give us this day our daily bread.THE THREAD
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.Both verses place food before someone whose vulnerability remains: enemies are still present, and prison garments still name confinement. The table does not wait for danger to disappear before provision arrives.
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