Susanna 4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ Joakim was very rich, and he had a large private garden next to his home. The Jews came to him because he was the most honored among them. ⁵ Two elders among the people had been appointed as judges that year. It was about them that the Lord had spoken: “Lawless disorder^[a] has come out of Babylon, from elders, from judges who were supposed to guide the people.” ⁶ These men spent a lot of time at Joakim’s house, and all the people with lawsuits came to them.