Deuteronomy 1:13
Provide wise and understanding men for yourselves that are known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
12How do I bear your pressure, and your burden, and your strife by myself?
14and you answer me and say, The thing which you have spoken [is] good to do.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21And you provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and have placed [these] over them [for] heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,
Acts 1:21It is necessary, therefore, of the men who went with us during all the time in 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 →