What Does 2 Samuel 7:14 Mean in the King James?
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
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 son remains named as son even as the verse turns to rod and stripes: painful correction is placed inside the bond, not as its cancellation.
THE MEANING
The verse lets you see belonging and consequence held together. When the son acts crookedly, the consequence is not abstract: the verse names a rod and blows from human hands. The father-son claim remains even as the pain is described plainly.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a father’s claim must mean protection from every painful consequence: here, sonship remains while the verse names the rod and stripes.
THE ROOT
וְהֹכַחְתִּיו
wəhōḵaḥtîw
GROWS FROM
יכח
To prove, decide, reprove, or correct.
The verb belongs to a root that can describe making a case clear as well as reproving or correcting. Here, “chasten” carries that sense of confrontation and correction, while the verse still names the rod and human blows plainly.
ALSO GROWS
yāḵaḥ: To prove, decide, or reprove.
יָכַח
This verbal form shows the root’s range: correction involves confronting what has gone wrong.
tōḵēḥāh: Reproof or correction.
תּוֹכֵחָה
This noun makes the root’s corrective sense explicit, illuminating the force of “chasten.”
mōḵîaḥ: One who reproves or corrects.
מוֹכִיחַ
This form names the one who confronts wrongdoing, linking the verse’s act of correction to the person carrying it out.
THE PATTERN
Scripture can place painful correction within a stated bond of fatherly love and sonship.
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.THE THREAD
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.The Hebrew verb translated “correcteth” comes from יכח, the same root as “chasten” in this verse. Proverbs places that correction beside a father’s delight, while 2 Samuel names the rod and stripes directly.
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