What Does Jeremiah 29:2 Mean in the King James?
(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
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 departure empties more than a throne: it carries away the skilled hands a community needs to make and repair.
THE MEANING
Displacement reaches across a community’s life: its rulers, household authority, civic leaders, and people who shape wood and metal all leave the city. The verse speaks now to how a rupture can remove not only those who govern a place but also the hands that give it capacity to make and mend.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that only the powerful matter when a community is uprooted cannot hold here: the verse names its makers beside its rulers.
THE ROOT
צאת
tset
GROWS FROM
יצא
yatsa
Go out, come forth, leave.
The Hebrew form behind “departed” is צאת (tset, “going out”), from יצא (yatsa, “to go out”). Its branches can name leaving and being brought out: the root identifies the movement, while the verse’s context shows this exit as displacement.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: Go out, come out, depart.
יָצָא
This verb makes the root’s basic movement visible: the people leave, while the surrounding list shows how much of the city’s life goes with them.
hotsi: Bring out, lead out.
הוֹצִיא
The same root can describe causing someone to go out; the root itself names the movement, while the context determines whether it is removal or release.
THE PATTERN
When a community loses its supports, the loss reaches both those who direct it and those whose hands make its life work.
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.THE THREAD
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.Jeremiah’s צאת (tset, “going out”) and Exodus’s יצאו (yats’u, “they went out”) come from יצא (yatsa, “go out, come forth”). The same root names exit under displacement and exit into release; the surrounding words give the movement its force, linking this city’s emptying to Scripture’s larger passage from constriction toward spaciousness.
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