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 6:23
Context6:23 listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. 7
2 Chronicles 18:26
Context18:26 Say, ‘This is what the king says: “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water 8 until I return safely.”’”
2 Chronicles 21:7
Context21:7 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty 9 because of the promise 10 he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty. 11
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 “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by repaying the guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”
8 tn Heb “the bread of affliction and the water of affliction.”
9 tn Heb “house.”
10 tn Or “covenant.”
11 tn Heb “which he made to David, just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” Here “lamp” is metaphorical, symbolizing the Davidic dynasty.
