Deuteronomy 1:13
Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?
14and ye answer me and say, Good [is] the thing which thou hast spoken — to do.
Cross References
Exodus 18:21'And thou — thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed [these] over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,
Acts 1:21'It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go 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 →