What Does Jeremiah 3:18 Mean in the King James?
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
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 promised homecoming is shared: Judah and Israel move together toward a home already given.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to you as someone who can hold estrangement and reunion: separated households move together toward a home already given. Return is shared, and its destination is received as inheritance. Division is real, but it is not the final shape of belonging.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what is divided must stay divided, or that a return to wholeness must be made alone.
THE ROOT
יַחְדָּו
yachdav
GROWS FROM
יחד
To join, be united, be together.
English makes “together” sound like a detail about how the houses travel, but the Hebrew carries the sense of joining. Their return is a reunion that preserves their distinct names while bringing them into shared movement.
ALSO GROWS
yahad: Together, in union.
יַחַד
This related form makes clear that the houses share more than a destination; they are joined in the return.
yachid: Singular, alone, only.
יָחִיד
Its sense of singularity sharpens the verse’s movement from separate houses toward being together.
יָבֹאוּ
yavo’u
GROWS FROM
בוא
To come, enter, or arrive; in a causative form, to bring someone in.
The verse’s “come” names movement into a shared place, while the same root can describe someone bringing others in. Homecoming is both the people’s arrival and a gathering they receive.
ALSO GROWS
bo: To come or enter.
בּוֹא
This is the root’s basic movement, carried here by the houses as they come together.
mevo: An entrance or approach.
מָבוֹא
This related word gives arrival the shape of an entry into a place of belonging.
יֵלְכוּ
yeleḵu
GROWS FROM
הלך
To go, walk, or move along.
“walk” in this verse is yeleḵu. In this travel scene, halak is physical going: Judah and Israel move alongside one another on the return. The same root gives words for walking and for a way of proceeding, so reunion names a shared route as well as a shared destination.
ALSO GROWS
halikhah: Going or walking.
הֲלִיכָה
This form keeps the verse’s emphasis on movement toward the land.
halakhah: A way of proceeding or practice.
הֲלָכָה
This related word carries the sense of a shared way, echoing the houses’ movement together.
THE PATTERN
Restoration gathers what has been divided into shared movement and belonging.
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.THE THREAD
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.Jeremiah 3:18 uses בוא (bo, “come”); Jeremiah 31:8 uses the same root in its “bring” form. Here the houses come together; there, the scattered are brought from the north. The shared root makes homecoming both their movement and a gathering they receive.
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