Susanna 5-7

Common English Bible

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.

⁷ When the people went away in the middle of the day, Susanna would walk around her husband’s private garden.