Deuteronomy 1:13
Provide (then) for yourselves prudent and sagacious men of your tribes, and I will appoint them to be chiefs over you.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
12How can I bear alone your labour, your business, and your adjudgments?
14And you answered me, and said: The thing that thou hast spoken it is right that we should do.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21And thou, look out from the whole people men of ability who fear the Lord, men of truth who abhor to take mammon; and superappoint them chiefs of thousands, and chiefs of hundreds, and chiefs of fifties, and chiefs 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 →