Exodus 18:25

Webster's Bible (1833)

Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

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  • Deut 1:15 : 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
  • Exod 18:21 : 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.
  • Acts 6:5 : 5 These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

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  • Exod 18:20-24
    5 verses
    84%

    20You 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.

    21Moreover 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.

    22Let 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.

    23If 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."

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

  • Deut 1:13-15
    3 verses
    82%

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

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

    15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

  • Exod 18:26
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    26They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

  • Num 31:47-48
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    74%

    47even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

    48The officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;

  • Num 1:16-17
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    73%

    16These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

    17Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.

  • Num 30:1
    73%

    1Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.

  • Num 11:16
    72%

    16Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.

  • Num 13:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.

    3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

  • Num 11:24
    72%

    24Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.

  • Num 32:28
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    28So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 19:7
    71%

    7Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.

  • 1 Sam 8:12
    71%

    12and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

  • Josh 22:14
    71%

    14and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

  • Exod 18:13-16
    4 verses
    71%

    13It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

    14When 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?"

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

    16When 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."

  • Num 31:14
    70%

    14Moses was angry with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

  • 2 Sam 18:1
    70%

    1David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

  • Exod 4:29
    70%

    29Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

  • Num 1:19
    69%

    19As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

  • Num 31:5
    69%

    5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

  • Num 25:5
    69%

    5Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.

  • Num 16:2
    69%

    2and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;

  • Num 11:30
    69%

    30Moses got him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

  • Deut 16:18
    69%

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

  • Num 27:15-17
    3 verses
    69%

    15Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

    16Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

    17who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd.

  • Deut 33:5
    68%

    5He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.

  • Deut 20:9
    68%

    9It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people.

  • Num 3:42
    68%

    42Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

  • Num 29:40
    68%

    40Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Num 27:22
    68%

    22Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:

  • Num 4:34
    68%

    34Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses,

  • Num 31:3
    68%

    3Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.

  • 2 Chr 8:10
    68%

    10These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.