Deuteronomy 1:13
Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
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Deuteronomy 1:13
Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
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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 18:20
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 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
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.
Deuteronomy 1:9
I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.
Deuteronomy 1:10
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
Deuteronomy 1:11
May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
Deuteronomy 1:13
Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
Deuteronomy 1:14
You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”
Exodus 18:25
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.
Numbers 11:16
Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
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Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1:16
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
Genesis 41:33
“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
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Acts 6:2
The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
Acts 6:3
Therefore, select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
Acts 1:21
“Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
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Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
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