Deuteronomy 1:13
Take for you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
12How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
14And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou have spoken is good to do.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21Moreover thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as 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,
Acts 1:21It is necessary therefore, of the men who accompanied us during all the time during which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:10-19
The Charge to Magistrates. ( b. c. 1451.) 9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10 The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I… Read the whole commentary →