What Does 2 Samuel 9:5 Mean in the King James?
Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.
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
David’s name carries belovedness, and here belovedness becomes a sending that reaches into a house and fetches someone out.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to the part of you that feels beyond notice: the king’s reach can come to where you are. The movement begins with his sending; the one in the house does not have to cross the distance alone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being hidden in a place of lack makes you unreachable.
THE ROOT
וַיִּשְׁלַח
vayishlaḥ
GROWS FROM
שלח
Send forth, release, let go, or stretch out the hand.
“sent” in this verse is vayishlaḥ. The root holds sending and release together: David’s action crosses the distance and brings the man out. The next verse reveals where this movement leads, the king’s table.
ALSO GROWS
Shiloach: Sent; the Hebrew name behind Siloam.
שִׁלֹחַ
John 9:7 explicitly translates Siloam as “Sent,” joining the king’s sending here to the sent waters where a man receives sight.
shulchan: Table; the place where food is set out.
שֻׁלְחָן
The following verse seats the man at David’s table: the sending carries him toward shared provision.
דָּוִד
Dawid
GROWS FROM
דוד
Beloved; also associated with kinship.
“David” in this verse is Dawid. The name’s sound-shape is also the word for beloved, so the sender’s name carries the quality enacted in the scene. Belovedness here has a direction and an address: it reaches the one in the house.
ALSO GROWS
dod: Beloved; kinsman.
דּוֹד
This shared word-root lets David’s name carry the quality of belovedness into his action.
dodî: My beloved.
דּוֹדִי
The possessive form makes belovedness relational, echoing the personal reach shown in this verse.
THE PATTERN
Welcome takes form when someone with room reaches toward those kept outside and brings them in.
And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.THE THREAD
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.John names Siloam as “Sent,” connecting it to the Hebrew root behind David’s “sent.” Here the sending reaches into a house and brings someone out; there, the Sent pool becomes the place where sight emerges.
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