2 Chronicles 1:10 Meaning and Explanation
“Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Solomon asks for wisdom and knowledge to lead and judge God's great people.
What Does 2 Chronicles 1:10 Mean?
Here is the request itself. Of everything Solomon could have asked, he asks for wisdom and knowledge, so that he may go out and come in before the people, an idiom for leading them faithfully in every public duty. He feels the weight of judging so vast a nation.
Solomon asks not for himself but for the sake of others, that he might serve God's people well. He calls them thy people, recognizing they belong first to God. The truest greatness seeks the capacity to serve rather than the rewards of rank, and God delights to give wisdom to those who ask in order to bless others.
2 Chronicles 1:10 in the Original Language
hokmah (חָכְמָה), 'wisdom' -- skill in living rightly, the practical art of godly discernment.
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What does 2 Chronicles 1:10 mean?
Solomon asks for wisdom and knowledge to lead and judge God's great people.