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

Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Able men

Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?"

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

Such as

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, 'One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

And Ahab summoned Obadiah, the steward of the house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly.

He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

that I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the commander of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who did not fear God, and did not respect man.

Men

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.

"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

"Thus has the LORD of hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

Hating

"You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? I will restore it to you."

Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil?

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,' says the Lord GOD.

I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.

not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

having eyes full of adultery, and who cannot cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Rulers of thousands

But if they blow just one, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and every one of them heads of ancestral houses among the thousands of Israel.

and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

General references

Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

But if they blow just one, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.