1 Samuel 8:1

Israel's Demand For A King

¹ Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. ² The name of his first son was Joel and the name of his second Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.

Israel

Samuel

Deuteronomy 16:18-19

You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

Judges 5:10

Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.

Judges 8:22-23

Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.

Judges 10:4

And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.

Judges 12:14

He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.

2 Chronicles 19:5-6

And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,

Nehemiah 7:2

I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.

1 Timothy 5:21

I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.