Deuteronomy 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
American Standard Version
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In Context
12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
14And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good [for us] to do.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21Moreover thou shalt 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 1:21Of the men therefore that have companied with us all the time that 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 →