What Does 2 Kings 9:25 Mean in the King James?
Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
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 LORD’s “burden” and Jehu’s command to “take up” share one Hebrew root: the word spoken against Ahab is now carried toward Naboth’s field.
THE MEANING
The judgment spoken over Ahab remains present as Jehu recognizes it in the body being carried to Naboth’s field. The verse binds a word, a place, and an unfolding consequence together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a word loses its force because time has passed: Jehu remembers it as its consequence reaches the field.
THE ROOT
מַשָּׂא
massa
GROWS FROM
נשׂא
to lift, carry, or bear
The noun “burden” and the verb “laid” grow from the same root of carrying. The verse echoes that seed again in “Take up”: what is borne as a spoken burden becomes something physically carried toward the place named in it.
ALSO GROWS
take up: Lift or carry; an imperative form of נשׂא.
שָׂא
Jehu’s command uses the same root as “burden,” linking the body’s carrying with the burden laid upon Ahab.
forgiving: Bearing; in the phrase נֹשֵׂא עָוֹן, bearing crookedness, an idiom rendered “forgiving iniquity.”
נֹשֵׂא
The same root can name crookedness being borne away; here it names a burden borne against Ahab.
THE PATTERN
A word spoken with force can remain present until its appointed consequence appears.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.THE THREAD
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.The Hebrew word rendered “forgiving” here is נֹשֵׂא (nōśēʾ), from the same נשׂא root as the “burden” laid on Ahab. The root can picture crookedness being borne away, while this verse uses its burden sense for what is borne against him.
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