What Does 2 Chronicles 19:6 Mean in the King James?
And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
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 verse turns judgment from a verdict made for people into a trust carried in the LORD’s presence.
THE MEANING
When you judge, your decision answers to more than the person before you: the LORD is with you in the judgment. That presence makes careful attention part of the act itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A ruling is answerable only to the people who see it.
THE ROOT
תִּשְׁפְּטוּ
tishpetu
GROWS FROM
שפט
To judge, decide, or govern a case.
“judge” in this verse is tishpetu. The verse uses the same root for the judges, the act of judging, and the judgment itself. What English separates into people, action, and proceeding belongs to one connected work, carried out in the LORD’s presence.
ALSO GROWS
shofet: Judge
שֹׁפֵט
The judge is named by the work of deciding; the office and its responsibility are joined.
mishpat: Judgment or justice
מִשְׁפָּט
The judgment is another branch of the same root as the act of judging, so the decision remains bound to the responsibility behind it.
רְאוּ
re'u
GROWS FROM
ראה
To see, look, or perceive.
“Take heed” in this verse is re'u. The Hebrew says, literally, “see what you are doing.” The instruction begins with perception: the act must be clearly seen before the verse names the judge’s accountability.
ALSO GROWS
ro'eh: One who sees; a seer
רֹאֶה
This branch keeps the focus on the one who perceives, matching the verse’s call to see the action itself.
mar'eh: Sight or appearance
מַרְאֶה
This branch connects seeing with what is visible, sharpening the call to attend to what is actually being done.
THE PATTERN
Judgment entrusted to human hands remains answerable to God.
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.THE THREAD
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.“Judgment” here is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat), from the same שפט root as “judge” in 2 Chronicles 19:6. The shared root links impartial hearing with the deeper claim that judgment belongs to God.
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