What Does Jeremiah 25:24 Mean in the King James?
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
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
In Hebrew, “Arabia” and “the mingled people” echo the same three consonants, folding place and mixture into one widening reckoning.
THE MEANING
The verse names Arabia’s kings and the mixed peoples dwelling in the desert within the scope of judgment. Distance and unfamiliarity do not place a people beyond this reckoning.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that distant or unfamiliar peoples fall outside the field of accountability dissolves here: the verse names them directly.
THE ROOT
הָעֶרֶב
ha-ʿerev
GROWS FROM
עָרַב
ʿ-r-b
to mix, mingle
English presents Arabia and the mingled people as separate list entries, while their Hebrew forms echo the same consonants. Arabia’s name is not necessarily derived from the verb for mixing, but the sound links the named region with the idea of mixture as the judgment’s reach widens.
ALSO GROWS
ʿArav: Arabia, its people or territory
עֲרָב
Its consonants echo those in the word for “mingled people” beside it, linking place and mixture by sound without claiming a certain shared etymology.
ʿarav: to mix or mingle
עָרַב
This verbal root illuminates “mingled”: the verse includes communities described by their mixture among the peoples named in the reckoning.
THE PATTERN
When judgment names the nations, its reach crosses borders and includes rulers and communities at the margins.
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.THE THREAD
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.Jeremiah 50:37 uses the same word translated “mingled people” in another judgment inventory. That shared word connects this verse’s phrase to the wider pattern of communities being named within the reach of judgment.
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