Exodus 18:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Num 11:17 : 17 I will come down and talk with you there: and 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.
  • Num 15:33 : 33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
  • Num 27:2 : 2 They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,
  • Num 36:1 : 1 The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel:
  • Exod 18:26 : 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
  • Lev 24:11 : 11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
  • Exod 18:18 : 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.
  • Deut 1:17-18 : 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 17:8-9 : 8 If there arise 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 shall you 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.
  • Rom 13:6 : 6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 18:25-26
    2 verses
    85%

    25 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.

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

  • Exod 18:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    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.

    19 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.

    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.

  • Exod 18:23
    80%

    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."

  • Deut 1:12-18
    7 verses
    78%

    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.

    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.

    16 I charged 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 16:18
    77%

    18 Judges 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.

  • Exod 18:16
    75%

    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."

  • Deut 17:8-11
    4 verses
    75%

    8 If there arise 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 shall you 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.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
    74%

    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.

  • Ezra 7:25
    72%

    25 You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach you him who doesn't know them.

  • Exod 21:1
    72%

    1 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

  • Deut 25:1
    70%

    1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Ps 72:2
    70%

    2 He will judge your people with righteousness, And your poor with justice.

  • 1 Sam 8:12
    70%

    12 and 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.

  • 1 Kgs 12:9
    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?

  • 2 Chr 10:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 He said to them, What counsel give you, 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?

    10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

  • Num 11:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 Yahweh 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.

    17 I will come down and talk with you there: and 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.

  • 2 Chr 19:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    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: this do, 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 Yahweh be with the good.

  • Exod 18:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

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

    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?"

  • 2 Chr 19:8
    69%

    8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.

  • Deut 20:9
    69%

    9 It 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.

  • Judg 2:18
    69%

    18 When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them.

  • Num 27:20
    68%

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

  • 1 Cor 6:4
    68%

    4 If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

  • 1 Chr 28:21
    68%

    21 Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with you in all manner of work every willing man who has skill, for any manner of service: also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.

  • Deut 19:17
    68%

    17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

  • 1 Sam 8:9
    68%

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

  • 1 Chr 22:13
    67%

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

  • Jer 22:16
    67%

    16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

  • Deut 17:14
    67%

    14 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;

  • Eccl 5:8
    67%

    8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

  • Lev 19:15
    67%

    15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

  • 1 Kgs 3:28
    67%

    28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.