2 Kings 19:30
in 2 Kings 19And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
KJV
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
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This verse in 2 Kings 19
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThe remnant - shall yet again take root - As your corn shall take root in the soil, and bring forth and abundantly multiply itself, so shall the Jewish people; the population shall be greatly increased, and the desolations occasioned by the sword soon be forgotten.
This site's exposition
such things as grow of themselves
on 2 Kings 19:29-31
The sign given to Hezekiah personally covers two years of eating what the land produces on its own, most likely because the Assyrian withdrawal still leaves the fields untended through one more season, and a third year of ordinary sowing once the danger has fully passed. The remnant taking root downward and bearing fruit upward answers the grass-on-housetops picture already used against Assyria's own transience, and the sign closes with the zeal of the Lord of hosts, the same phrase Isaiah uses again at 9:7 for the child who sits on David's throne.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Such is the prosperity of the soul: it is taking root downwards by faith in Christ, and then being fruitful in fruits of righteousness. The city was shut up, none went out or came in; but now the remnant in Jerusalem and Zion shall go forth freely, and there shall be none to hinder them, or make them afraid,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The remnant that is escaped - Terrible ravages seem to have been committed in the first attack (2Ki 18:13 note). And though the second invasion was comparatively harmless, yet it probably fell heavily on the cities of the west and the southwest. Thus the “escaped” were but “a remnant.” Bear fruit upward - The flourishing time of Josiah is the special fulfillment of this prophecy 2Ki 23:15-20.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְיָ֨סְפָ֜ה | veyasefah | and it will add | H3254 → | 212 times |
| פְּלֵיטַ֧ת | peleitat | [the] escaped remnant of | H6413 → | |
| בֵּית־ | beit- | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוּדָ֛ה | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
| הַנִּשְׁאָרָ֖ה | hanisharah | which remains | H7604 → | 133 times |
| שֹׁ֣רֶשׁ | shoresh | a root | H8328 → | |
| לְמָ֑טָּה | lematah | <to> downwards | H4295 → | |
| וְעָשָׂ֥ה | veasah | and it will produce | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| פְרִ֖י | feri | fruit | H6529 → | |
| לְמָֽעְלָה׃ | lemaelah | <to> upwards <towards> | H4605 → |
וְיָ֨סְפָ֜הand it will add
veyasefahH3254 →212 times
פְּלֵיטַ֧ת[the] escaped remnant of
peleitatH6413 →
בֵּית־[the] house of
beit-H1004 →2046 times
יְהוּדָ֛הJudah
yehudahH3063 →819 times
הַנִּשְׁאָרָ֖הwhich remains
hanisharahH7604 →133 times
שֹׁ֣רֶשׁa root
shoreshH8328 →
לְמָ֑טָּה<to> downwards
lematahH4295 →
וְעָשָׂ֥הand it will produce
veasahH6213 →2628 times
פְרִ֖יfruit
feriH6529 →
לְמָֽעְלָה׃<to> upwards <towards>
lemaelahH4605 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
it leads to
- Isaiah 37:31
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- Hosea 14:5–6
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
- Romans 11:16–26
If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
- Isaiah 54:1–3
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her…
- Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they…
- Isaiah 37:31
Through
2 Kings 19:4Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the…
it leads to
- 2 Samuel 16:12
Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
- Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
- Joshua 14:12
Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s…
- 2 Samuel 16:12
Where this verse is studied
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); F. W. Farrar, The Second Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.