Deuteronomy 1:13
Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
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In Context
12How can I alone bear your encumbrance, 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 covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Acts 1:21Wherefore, of these men who accompanied us, all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and 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 →