2 Chronicles 6:5

6:5

day <03117> [Since the day.]

live <08034> [my name.]

chosen ..................... choose <0977> [neither chose.]

The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.