Deuteronomy 1:13
Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
12How shall I alone be able to bear your labor, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
14And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast told us is good to do.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21And do thou look out for thyself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and thou shalt set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains 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 →