What Does Jeremiah 44:4 Mean in the King James?
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
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 doubled “sent” comes from שָׁלַח (shalach, “send forth; release”): the warning itself is release reaching you before the deed is done.
THE MEANING
The LORD names the deed as abhorrent and sends his servants to warn you before it is done. His repeated approach brings the warning into your present moment, while the act remains undone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that God’s opposition means he has left you alone: here, the warning keeps arriving before the deed is done.
THE ROOT
שָׁלַח
shalach
GROWS FROM
שלח
Send forth, release, let go, extend outward.
The verse uses this root twice: “I sent” and “sending them.” Its wider family carries both the sent waters and provision spread out to meet a need, making the prophets’ words an outward reach that can release you from the deed before it is done.
ALSO GROWS
Shiloach: Siloam; “sent” waters.
שִׁלֹחַ
The sent waters picture restoration arriving from beyond oneself, as the warning arrives to meet the hearer.
shulchan: Table; provision spread out.
שֻׁלְחָן
This branch carries the sense of something extended outward to meet a need, like the warning sent toward the hearer.
THE PATTERN
The LORD repeatedly sends warning before the deed is done, making divine approach precede the act.
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!THE THREAD
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:Jeremiah 7:25 repeats שָׁלַח (shalach, “send forth; release”) in “sent” and “sending,” then stretches that motion across every day. Beside this verse, it reveals the warning as persistent release reaching you before the deed is done.
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