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  1. And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work which the Lord had done for Israel.
  2. And he caught a young man of Succoth, and questioned him; and he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.
  3. And he took the elders of the city and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth.
  4. And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob;
  5. But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”
  6. And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the Ammonites, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
  7. Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them over to me, I will be your head.”
  8. And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord will be witness between us; we will surely do as you say.”
  9. So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.
  10. Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
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25 topical index results for “elders”

JEPHTHAH : Recalled from the land of Tob by the elders of Gilead (Judges 11:5)
LYSTRA : Congregation of, elders ordained for, by Paul and Barnabas (Acts 14:23)
MEDAD : One of the seventy elders who did not go to the tabernacle with Moses, but prophesied in the camp (Numbers 11:26-29)
MILETUS : And sends to Ephesus for the elders of the congregation, and addresses them at (Acts 20:17-38)
OATH : The elders of Gilead confirm their pledge to Jephthah by (Judges 11:10)
PAUL : Escapes to Derbe, where he preaches the gospel, and returns to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antioch, strengthens the souls of the disciples, exhorts them to continue in the faith, and helps to appoint elders (Acts 14:19-23)
PAUL : Refers the question of circumcision to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem (Acts 15:2,4)
PAUL : Sends for the elders of the congregation of Ephesus; relates to them how he had preached in Asia and his temptations and afflictions, urging repentance toward God (Acts 20:17-21)
PETER : Advocates the preaching of the gospel to the Gentiles in the hearing of the apostles and elders (Acts 11:1-18;15:7-11)
ELDER » (Equivalent to the title senator, in present use) » Elders, with delegated powers, were authorized to act for their constituency (Deuteronomy 1:13,15)
FALSEHOOD » INSTANCES OF » The Gibeonites, ambassadors, in the deception they perpetrated upon Joshua and the elders of Israel in leading them to believe that they came from a distant region, when in fact they lived in the immediate vicinity (Joshua 9)
FASTING » INSTANCES OF » Of the consecration of the elders (Acts 14:23)
HOLY SPIRIT » INSPIRATION OF » The seventy elders (Numbers 11:17)
MAGNANIMITY » INSTANCES OF » Joshua and the elders of Israel to the Gibeonites who had deceived the Israelites (Joshua 9:3-27)
OPINION, PUBLIC » CONCESSIONS TO » James and the Christian elders, who required Paul to observe certain rites (Acts 21:18-26)
RULERS » WICKED » The chief priests, elders, and the Sanhedrin, seeking false witness against Jesus (Matthew 26:59)
SEVEN » DAYS » The elders of Jabesh-gilead ask for a truce of (1 Samuel 11:3)
SHECHEM » Also called SYCHAR, a city of refuge in Mount Ephr » Joshua assembled the tribes of Israel at, with all their elders, chiefs, and judges, and presented them before the Lord (Joshua 24:1-28)
VISION » Of John on the island of Patmos » The twenty-four elders (Revelation 4:4)

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