Exodus 18:19

World English Bible (2000)

Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 27:5 : 5 Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
  • Deut 5:5 : 5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying,
  • Gen 39:2 : 2 Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
  • Exod 3:12 : 12 He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
  • Exod 20:19 : 19 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."
  • Exod 4:12 : 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
  • Exod 4:16 : 16 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
  • Exod 18:15 : 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
  • Exod 18:24 : 24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
  • Deut 20:1 : 1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Josh 1:9 : 9 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."
  • 2 Sam 14:17 : 17 Then your handmaid said, 'Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"
  • Prov 9:9 : 9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 18:20-24
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    81%

    20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

    21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

    22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

    23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."

    24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

  • Exod 18:14-18
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    14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"

    15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

    16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

    17 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.

    18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6 and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • Deut 1:16-18
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    16 I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

    17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

    18 I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

  • Deut 1:12-14
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    12 How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

    13 Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

    14 You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."

  • Exod 4:15-16
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    15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

    16 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

  • 1 Kgs 12:9
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    9 He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?'"

  • Deut 17:8-11
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    8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

    9 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.

    10 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

    11 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

  • Judg 18:5
    72%

    5 They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."

  • Prov 19:20
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    20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

  • 1 Sam 12:7
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    7 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.

  • Eccl 8:2
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    2 I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.

  • Ps 81:8
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    8 "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

  • Num 11:17
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    17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

  • 1 Sam 8:9
    71%

    9 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who shall reign over them."

  • Deut 16:18
    71%

    18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

  • 1 Chr 22:12-13
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    71%

    12 May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.

    13 Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong, and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.

  • Deut 5:31
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    31 But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it."

  • Num 27:20
    71%

    20 You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

  • 2 Chr 10:9
    70%

    9 He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?'"

  • Judg 20:7
    70%

    7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel."

  • Jer 18:19
    70%

    19 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

  • Exod 4:12
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    12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."

  • 1 Sam 24:15
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    15 May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand."

  • Judg 18:19
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    19 They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"

  • 1 Kgs 3:9
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    9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?"

  • 1 Sam 10:7
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    7 Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do as occasion shall serve you; for God is with you.

  • Ps 78:1
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    1 Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • 2 Chr 19:10-11
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    10 Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you shall not be guilty.

    11 Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good."

  • Deut 13:18
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    18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

  • 2 Sam 17:11
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    11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

  • 1 Sam 8:21
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    21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.