Deuteronomy 1:9-18
1599 Geneva Bible
9 ¶ And I spake [a]unto you the same time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
10 The Lord your God hath [b]multiplied you: and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven in number:
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 alone [c]bear your cumbrance and your charge, and your strife?
13 Bring you men of wisdom and of understanding, and [d]known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you:
14 Then he answered me and said, the thing is good that thou hast commanded us to do.
15 So I took the chief of your tribes, [e]wise and known men, and made them rulers over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifty, and captains over ten, and officers among your tribes.
16 And I charged your Judges that same time, saying, Hear the controversies between your brethren, and (A)judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 Ye shall have no respect of person in judgment, (B)but shall hear the small as well as the great: ye shall not fear the face of man: for the judgment is [f]God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring unto me, and I will hear it.
18 Also I commanded you the same time all the things which ye should do.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Deuteronomy 1:9 By the counsel of Jethro my father-in-law, Exod. 18:19.
- Deuteronomy 1:10 Not so much by the course of nature, as miraculously.
- Deuteronomy 1:12 Signifying how great a burden it is, to govern the people.
- Deuteronomy 1:13 Whose godliness and uprightness is known.
- Deuteronomy 1:15 Declaring what sort of men ought to have a public charge, read Exod. 18:31.
- Deuteronomy 1:17 And you are his Lieutenants.
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