Discovery Box2 Chronicles 1:10 
Context1:10 Now give me wisdom and discernment so 1 I can effectively lead this nation. 2 Otherwise 3 no one is able 4 to make judicial decisions for 5 this great nation of yours.” 6
2 Chronicles 30:7
Context30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, 7 provoking him to destroy them, 8 as you can see.
1 tn The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) following the imperative here indicates purpose/result.
2 tn Heb “so I may go out before this nation and come in.” The expression “go out…and come in” here means “to lead” (see HALOT 425 s.v. יצא qal.4).
3 tn Heb “for.” The word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
4 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
5 tn Heb “to judge.”
6 tn Heb “these numerous people of yours.”
7 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).
8 tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).
