Deuteronomy 1:13
Furnish for yourselves wise and understanding men, and those known among your tribes, and I will place them as chiefs over you.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
12How can I by 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 to do.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21Moreover, thou shalt select out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating [their own] gain; and place these over them, as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
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 →