What Does Jeremiah 15:1 Mean in the King James?
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
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 Hebrew verb שַׁלַּח (shallach, “send forth, release”) makes this expulsion an act of sending: the same root can free one people or send another away.
THE MEANING
You encounter a hard limit to intercession: even Moses and Samuel standing before God do not turn God’s living regard toward this people. The command sends them from before God’s face and lets them go out.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that even the strongest intercession must secure a reprieve is undone here: Moses and Samuel do not change the outcome.
THE ROOT
שַׁלַּח
shallach from shalach
GROWS FROM
שלח
shalach
To send forth, send away, or release.
“Cast them out” carries the movement of sending or releasing. The root can describe liberation or expulsion; here, the sending removes the people from God’s presence.
ALSO GROWS
shillach: Send away; release.
שִׁלֵּחַ
This form names the act in the verse: sending the people away from before God’s face.
Shiloach: Sent forth; the name associated with sent waters.
שִׁלֹחַ
The same sending can carry waters toward restoration; here it carries the people away from God’s presence.
shulchan: Table; provision spread out.
שֻׁלְחָן
The root’s outward movement can extend provision; in this verse, the movement becomes removal instead of welcome.
נַפְשִׁי
nafshi
GROWS FROM
נפש
nephesh
The living self: a person, life, or desire.
The word rendered “mind” can carry the whole living self, not only a passing thought. The verse presents God’s regard as turned away from this people.
ALSO GROWS
nephesh: Living soul; the living self.
נֶפֶשׁ
The verse’s “my mind” is literally “my living self,” giving the refusal the weight of a whole-person orientation.
nephesh chayah: Living soul; living being.
נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה
This phrase names the whole living being, echoing the breadth of the word behind “mind” here.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משה
mashah
Draw out; the name-story linked to Moses in Exodus 2:10.
The name-story links Moses to being drawn out of water. Here, the one who carries that image stands as an intercessor but cannot draw this people back from being sent away.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: Draw out.
מָשָׁה
This is the verb behind the name-story that presents Moses as drawn out of the water.
meshitihu: I drew him out.
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
Exodus 2:10 uses this form in explaining Moses’s name, giving his presence here an echo of drawing out.
Mosheh: Moses; the one drawn out in the name-story.
מֹשֶׁה
The name’s image of being drawn out stands beside this verse’s command sending the people out.
THE PATTERN
Intercession can be spoken before God, yet it does not compel an outcome or cancel a boundary God sets.
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.THE THREAD
And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.There, the same Hebrew verb שַׁלַּח (shallach, “send forth, release”) is the command for Pharaoh to let Israel go. Here, the root sends people away from God’s presence; the direction of the sending carries freedom in one verse and expulsion in the other.
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