Exodus 18:26

Geneva Bible (1560)

And they iudged the people at all seasons, but they brought the hard causes vnto Moses: for they iudged all small matters themselues.

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  • Exod 18:22 : 22 And let them iudge the people at all seasons: but euery great matter let them bring vnto thee, and let them iudge all small causes: so shall it be easier for thee, when they shal beare the burden with thee.
  • Deut 17:8 : 8 If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgemet betweene blood & blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse,
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 Then came two harlots vnto the King, and stoode before him. 17 And the one woman sayd, Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe with her in the house. 18 And the third day after that I was deliuered, this woman was deliuered also: and we were in the house together: no stranger was with vs in the house, saue we twaine. 19 And this womans sonne died in the night: for she ouerlay him. 20 And she rose at midnight, and tooke my sonne from my side, while thine handmaide slept, and layde him in her bosome, and layde her dead sonne in my bosome. 21 And when I rose in the morning to giue my sonne sucke, beholde, he was dead: and when I had wel considered him in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne, whom I had borne. 22 Then the other woman sayd, Nay, but my sonne liueth, and thy sonne is dead. Againe she sayde, No, but thy sonne is dead, and mine aliue: thus they spake before the King. 23 Then sayde the King, She sayth, This that liueth is my sonne, and the dead is thy sonne: and the other sayth, Nay, but the dead is thy sonne, and the liuing is my sonne. 24 Then the King said, Bring me a sworde: & they brought out a sworde before the King. 25 And the King sayde, Deuide ye the liuing child in twaine, & giue the one halfe to the one, and the other halfe to the other. 26 Then spake the woman, whose the liuing child was, vnto the King, for her compassion was kindled toward her sonne, and she sayde, Oh my lorde, giue her the liuing childe, & slay him not: but the other sayde, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but deuide it. 27 Then the King answered, and sayde, Giue her the liuing childe, and slay him not: this is his mother. 28 And all Israel heard the iudgement, which the King had iudged, and they feared the King: for they sawe that the wisedome of God was in him to doe iustice.
  • 1 Kgs 10:1 : 1 And the Queene of Sheba hearing ye fame of Salomon (concerning the Name of the Lord) came to proue him with hard questions.
  • Job 29:16 : 16 I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
  • Exod 18:14-15 : 14 And when Moses father in law saw all that he did to the people, he sayde, What is this that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thy selfe alone, and all the people stande about thee from morning vnto euen? 15 And Moses sayd vnto his father in law, Because the people come vnto me to seeke God.

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  • Exod 18:13-25
    13 verses
    85%

    13Now on the morow, when Moses sate to iudge the people, the people stoode about Moses from morning vnto euen.

    14And when Moses father in law saw all that he did to the people, he sayde, What is this that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thy selfe alone, and all the people stande about thee from morning vnto euen?

    15And Moses sayd vnto his father in law, Because the people come vnto me to seeke God.

    16When they haue a matter, they come vnto me, and I iudge betweene one and another, and declare the ordinances of God, and his lawes.

    17But Moses father in law said vnto him, The thing which thou doest, is not well.

    18Thou both weariest thy selfe greatly, & this people that is with thee: for the thing is too heauie for thee: thou art not able to doe it thy selfe alone.

    19Heare nowe my voyce, (I will giue thee counsell, and God shalbe with thee) be thou for the people to Godwarde, and report thou the causes vnto God,

    20And admonish them of the ordinances, & of the lawes, & shew them the way, wherein they must walke, and the worke that they must do.

    21Moreouer, prouide thou among al the people men of courage, fearing God, men dealing truely, hating couetousnesse: and appoynt such ouer them to be rulers ouer thousandes, rulers ouer hundreths, rulers ouer fifties, and rulers ouer tennes.

    22And let them iudge the people at all seasons: but euery great matter let them bring vnto thee, and let them iudge all small causes: so shall it be easier for thee, when they shal beare the burden with thee.

    23If thou do this thing, (& God so command thee) both thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shal also go quietly to their place.

    24So Moses obeyed the voyce of his father in law, and did all that he had sayd:

    25And Moses chose men of courage out of all Israel, and made them heads ouer the people, rulers ouer thousandes, rulers ouer hundreths, rulers ouer fifties, and rulers ouer tennes.

  • Deut 16:18
    73%

    18Iudges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy cities, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall iudge the people with righteous iudgement.

  • Deut 1:13-18
    6 verses
    72%

    13Bring you men of wisedome and of vnderstanding, and knowen among your tribes, and I will make them rulers ouer you:

    14Then ye answered me and said, The thing is good that thou hast commanded vs to doe.

    15So I tooke the chiefe of your tribes wise and knowen men, & made them rulers ouer you, captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, and captaines ouer fiftie, and captaines ouer tenne, and officers among your tribes.

    16And I charged your iudges that same time, saying, Heare the controuersies betweene your brethren, and iudge righteously betwene euery man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

    17Ye shal haue no respect of person in iudgement, but shall heare the small aswell as the great: yee shall not feare the face of man: for the iudgemet is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring vnto me, and I will heare it.

    18Also I commaunded you the same time all the things which ye should doe.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6And said to the iudges, Take heede what ye doe: for yee execute not the iudgements of man, but of the Lorde, and he will be with you in the cause and iudgement.

  • Deut 17:8-10
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    69%

    8If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgemet betweene blood & blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse,

    9And thou shalt come vnto the Priestes of the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shall be in those daies, and aske, and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement,

    10And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place (which the Lorde hath chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to doe according to all that they informe thee.

  • Exod 18:27
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    27Afterward Moses let his father in law depart, and he went into his countrey.

  • Num 27:5
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    5Then Moses brought their cause before the Lorde.

  • Deut 25:1
    69%

    1When there shall be strife betweene men, and they shall come vnto iudgement, and sentence shall be giuen vpon them, and the righteous shall be iustified, and the wicked condemned,

  • Exod 21:1
    69%

    1Now these are the lawes, which thou shalt set before them:

  • Judg 2:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18And when the Lorde had raysed them vp Iudges, the Lord was with the Iudge, & deliuered them out of the hande of their enemies all the dayes of the Iudge (for the Lord had compassio on their gronings, because of them that oppressed them and tormented them)

    19Yet when the Iudge was dead, they returned, and did worse then their fathers, in following other gods to serue them and worshippe them: they ceased not from their owne inuentions, nor from their rebellious way.

  • 2 Chr 19:8
    68%

    8Moreouer in Ierusalem did Iehoshaphat set of the Leuites, and of the Priests and of the chiefe of the families of Israel, for the iudgement and cause of the Lord: & they returned to Ierusale.

  • Exod 24:3
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    3Afterwarde Moses came and told the people all the wordes of the Lorde, and all the lawes: and all the people answered with one voyce, and said, All the things which the Lorde hath said, will we doe.

  • Exod 18:8
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    8Then Moses told his father in law all that the Lorde had done vnto Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians for Israels sake, and all the trauaile that had come vnto them by the way, and howe the Lord deliuered them.

  • Judg 2:16
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    16Notwithstanding, the Lorde raysed vp Iudges, which deliuered them out of the hands of their oppressours.

  • Num 25:5
    67%

    5Then Moses sayd vnto the Iudges of Israel, Euery one slay his men that were ioyned vnto Baal Peor.

  • Exod 19:7
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    7Moses then came & called for the Elders of the people, and proposed vnto them all these things, which the Lord commanded him.

  • Num 30:1
    66%

    1(30:2) Moses also spake vnto the heads of ye tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded,

  • Deut 19:17
    66%

    17Then both the men which striue together, shal stand before ye Lord, euen before the Priests and the Iudges, which shall be in those daies,

  • Exod 24:14
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    14And said vnto the Elders, Tary vs here, vntill we come againe vnto you: and beholde, Aaron, and Hur are with you: whosoeuer hath any matters, let him come to them.

  • 1 Cor 6:4
    66%

    4If then ye haue iudgements of things perteining to this life, set vp them which are least esteemed in the Church.

  • Exod 18:1
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    1When Iethro the Priest of Midian Moses father in lawe heard all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and howe the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt,

  • Num 29:40
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    40(30:1) Then Moses spake vnto the children of Israel according to all that the Lorde had commanded him,

  • Num 32:28
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    28So concerning them, Moses commanded Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:

  • Acts 13:18
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    18And about the time of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.

  • Num 31:48
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    48Then the captaines which were ouer thousandes of the hoste, the captaines ouer the thousandes, and the captaines ouer the hundreds came vnto Moses:

  • Lev 26:46
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    46These are the ordinances, and the iudgements, and the lawes, which the Lorde made betweene him, and the children of Israel in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

  • 1 Sam 7:16
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    16And went about yeere by yere to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and iudged Israel in all those places.

  • Num 11:16
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    16Then the Lord said vnto Moses, Gather vnto me seuetie men of ye Elders of Israel, whome thou knowest, that they are the Elders of the people, and gouernonrs ouer them, & bring them vnto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and let them stand there with thee,

  • Ezek 44:24
    65%

    24And in controuersie they shall stande to iudge, and they shall iudge it according to my iudgements: and they shall keepe my lawes and my statutes in all mine assemblies, and they shall sanctifie my Sabbaths.

  • 1 Cor 6:2
    65%

    2Doe ye not knowe, that the Saintes shall iudge the worlde? If the worlde then shalbe iudged by you, are ye vnworthie to iudge the smallest matters?