Exodus 18:26
And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.
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Exodus 18:26
And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.
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Exodus 18:13
Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.
Exodus 18:14
And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?
Exodus 18:15
And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:
Exodus 18:16
And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.
Exodus 18:17
And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.
Exodus 18:18
Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.
Exodus 18:19
Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:
Exodus 18:20
Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do.
Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Exodus 18:22
And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.
Exodus 18:23
If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.
Exodus 18:24
So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.
Exodus 18:25
And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.
Exodus 18:26
And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.
Exodus 18:27
And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.
Numbers 27:2
They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,
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Deuteronomy 17:8
If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;
Deuteronomy 17:9
And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:
Deuteronomy 17:10
And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:
Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1:16
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17
In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
2 Chronicles 19:8
Then in Jerusalem he gave authority to certain of the Levites and the priests and the heads of families of Israel to give decisions for the Lord, and in the causes of those living in Jerusalem.
Deuteronomy 16:18
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.
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1 Kings 3:16
Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;
1 Kings 3:17
And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.
1 Kings 3:18
And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.
1 Kings 3:19
In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.
1 Kings 3:20
And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.
1 Kings 3:21
And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.
1 Kings 3:22
And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.
1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.
1 Kings 3:24
Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.
1 Kings 3:25
And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.
1 Kings 3:26
Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.
1 Kings 3:27
Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.
1 Kings 3:28
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
2 Samuel 15:2
And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
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Leviticus 24:11
And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
Exodus 22:9
In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.
Numbers 25:5
So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.
Isaiah 1:26
And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.
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Numbers 15:33
And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people.
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Exodus 24:16
And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.
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Numbers 15:34
And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him.
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Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.
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