What Does Ezra 5:17 Mean in the King James?
Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
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 future of the work is tied to a hidden record becoming visible and a decision being sent back to the people who need it.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you where the next step depends on what can be verified. A claim about the work does not have to remain rumor: it can be traced to a record, and a decision can be sent back to those waiting. The answer may confirm the claim or unsettle it; the request leaves that outcome open.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Uncertainty does not mean the claim can only be accepted or dismissed by guesswork. Here, a record can be searched for an answer that assumption alone cannot provide.
THE ROOT
יִשְׁלַח
yishlach
GROWS FROM
שלח
sh-l-ḥ
To send, send forth, or release.
The king is asked to send his decision to the people waiting on it. The root holds sending and release together: the answer is let go from the palace toward those whose work depends on it.
ALSO GROWS
shillach: Sent away; released.
שִׁלַּח
This form shows sending as letting something go from one’s hand or authority, as the king’s decision is released toward the workers.
Shiloach: Sent; the name of the waters of Siloam.
שִׁלֹחַ
The same root connects what is sent with what arrives; at Siloam, the sent waters become part of the restoration of sight.
THE PATTERN
What is concealed can be brought into the light and made available for judgment.
He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.THE THREAD
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.Ezra’s closing request asks the king to send his decision; Isaiah speaks of a word sent forth that accomplishes its purpose. The shared שלח root connects a dispatched answer with something released toward its work.
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