What Does Isaiah 22:24 Mean in the King James?

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

Isaiah 22:24 · KJV

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This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The verse’s “glory” is the full weight of a household, its descendants and even its smallest vessels, resting on one support.

THE MEANING

A household’s weight is more than its visible honor: its descendants and its smallest, most ordinary vessels all rest on one support. Continuity and daily life converge at the same point.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Honor is not only public standing, separate from the people and things a household depends on; it carries their weight too.

THE ROOT

כָּבוֹד

kavod

GROWS FROM

כבד

k-b-d

To be heavy or weighty.

“glory” in this verse is kavod. Kavod carries the sense of weight: what is honored is treated as weighty. Here that weight rests on him with the household’s descendants and vessels, making its honor tangible as everything gathered onto one support.

ALSO GROWS

kaved: Heavy, weighty.

כָּבֵד

This form makes the shared sense of weight explicit in the word translated “glory.”

kibbed: To honor, treat as weighty.

כִּבֵּד

It shows how the root’s sense of weight extends into the regard given to a person.

צֶאֱצָאִים

tse'etsa'im

GROWS FROM

יצא

y-ts-ʾ

To go out, issue forth.

The word for offspring grows from the root “go out”: descendants are named as what issues from a household. Beside kavod, the verse gathers both the household’s living continuance and its material vessels onto one support.

ALSO GROWS

yatsa: To go out, emerge.

יָצָא

This verb supplies the root sense carried by the word for offspring.

motsa: Going forth, source, or origin.

מוֹצָא

This related noun echoes the idea of what comes out from a source, illuminating descendants as what issues from a household.

THE PATTERN

A support’s measure is revealed by the full weight entrusted to it.

And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.

Isaiah 22:23 · KJVThe image names the household’s support as a securely fastened point before this verse describes what hangs there.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 55:22 · KJVThe burden placed on a support is answered with the promise of being sustained.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2 · KJVThe image extends to shared support, with another’s burden taken up and borne.

THE THREAD

And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.

Genesis 31:1 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “glory” here is ⁨כָּבוֹד⁩ (kavod), the same word used in Isaiah 22:24. Here it refers to acquired wealth, opening Isaiah’s household-weight to include substance as well as honor.

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