Exodus 18:21

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Exodus 18:21

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Summary

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Moreover

Deuteronomy 1:13

Acts 6:3

Able men

Such as

Men

Hating

Rulers of thousands

General references

Exodus 18:25

Leviticus 19:15

Numbers 10:4

Bible References

Moreover

Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads.

Therefore, survey, brethren, seven men of you, being witnesses full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye shall set over this need.

Able men

And Moses will choose men of ability from all Israel, and he will give them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, chiefs of ten.

Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment

And give to thy servant a heart to hear to judge thy people to discern between good to evil: for who shall be able to judge this thy weighty people?

In the transgression of a land many its chiefs: and by a man understanding to know, the place shall be extended.

Such as

Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.

And he will say, Thou shalt not put forth thy hand upon the boy, and thou shalt do nothing to him; for now I know that thou feared God, and thou didst not spare thy son thine only, from me.

And Joseph will say to them in the third day, This do ye, and live, I fearing God.

The God of Israel said to me, the Rock of Israel spake a parable upon the just man: a parable to fear God.

And Ahab will call for Obadiaha who was over the house. (And Obadiaha was fearing Jehovah greatly:

And he will set up judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, to city and city;

And it will be said, Not good the word which ye do: will ye not go in the fear of our God from the reproach of the nations our enemies?

And I shall command Hanani my brother, and Hananiah chief of the fortress, over Jerusalem, for he is as a man of truth, and fearing God above many.

We will hear the end of all the word: Fear thou God, and watch his commands: for this is all man.

Saying, There was a certain judge in a certain city, fearing not God, and not occupied about man:

Men

I was a father to the needy, and the contention I knew not I shall search it out

If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me;

And the throne was set up in mercy: and he sat upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking judgment, and hastening justice.

None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.

Run ye to and fro in the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye shall find a man, if there is he doing judgment, seeking faithfulness; and I will pardon to her.

And he shall not give upon interest, and he shall not take interest, from iniquity he shall turn back his hand; he shall do judgment of truth between man to man.

Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying. Judge ye the judgment of truth, and do mercy and compassions each to his brother.

These the words which ye shall do: speak the truth each with his neighbor; truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates.

Hating

And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.

Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.

Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you.

Thou wilt not gather my soul with the sinning, and my life with men of bloods:

He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;

They took a gift in thee to pour out blood; thou tookest usury and interest, and thou wilt plunder thy neighbors by violence, and thou didst forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Silver or gold, or clothing, of none have I eagerly desired.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.

Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:

Rulers of thousands

And if they shall sound with one, and to thee assembled the chiefs of the heads of the thousands of Israel.

And I will take the heads of your tribes, men wise and known, and I will give them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains and hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and scribes for your tribes.

And ten chiefs with him, one chief, one chief, to the house of a father for all the tribes of Israel; and each the head of the house of their fathers, these for the thousands of Israel.

And to set to himself captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and to plough his ploughing and to reap his harvest, and to do all his fighting and all his chariots.

General references

And Moses will choose men of ability from all Israel, and he will give them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, chiefs of ten.

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

And if they shall sound with one, and to thee assembled the chiefs of the heads of the thousands of Israel.