Exodus 18:15
Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
--------------------
Exodus 18:15
Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
--------------------
Exodus 18:12
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
Exodus 18:13
On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
Exodus 18:14
When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”
Exodus 18:15
Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
Exodus 18:16
When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
Exodus 18:17
Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
Exodus 18:19
Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exodus 18:27
Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
Exodus 20:19
They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
Exodus 4:16
He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
Exodus 18:1
Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus 18:5
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
Exodus 18:7
Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
Exodus 18:23
If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
Exodus 18:24
So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
-----
Exodus 18:18
You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
Exodus 18:20
You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Exodus 18:22
Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
Numbers 9:6
There were certain men who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
-----
Numbers 27:5
Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
Leviticus 24:12
They put him in custody until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.
Leviticus 24:13
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 15:34
They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
-----
1 Samuel 7:15
Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1 Samuel 7:16
He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
-----
1 Samuel 9:9
(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)
-----
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
-----
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Public Domain