Exodus 18:21
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| Overview - Exodus 18 | |
| 1 | Jethro brings his wife and two sons to Moses. |
| 7 | Moses entertains him, and relates the goodness of the Lord. |
| 9 | Jethro rejoices, blesses God, and offers sacrifice. |
| 13 | He gives good counsel, which is accepted. |
| 27 | Jethro departs. |
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Exodus 18:21 (King James Version)
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
- Moreover
- Deuteronomy 1:13-17 ; Acts 6:3
- able men
- 25 ; Deuteronomy 16:18 ; 1 Kings 3:9-12 ; Proverbs 28:2
- such as
- 23:2-9 Genesis 22:12 ; 42:18 2 Samuel 23:3 ; 1 Kings 18:3 1 Kings 18:12 ; 2 Chronicles 19:5-10
- Nehemiah 5:9 ; 7:2 Ecclesiastes 12:13 ; Luke 18:2 Luke 18:4
- men
- Job 29:16 ; 31:13 Isaiah 16:5 ; Isaiah 59:4 Isaiah 59:14 Isaiah 59:15 Jeremiah 5:1 ; Ezekiel 18:8 ; Zechariah 7:9
- Zechariah 8:16
- hating
- 23:8 Deuteronomy 16:18 Deuteronomy 16:19 ; 1 Samuel 8:3 ; 1 Samuel 12:3 1 Samuel 12:4 Psalms 26:9 Psalms 26:10 ; Isaiah 33:15
- Ezekiel 22:12 ; Acts 20:33 ; 1 Timothy 3:3 ; 6:9-11 2 Peter 2:14 2 Peter 2:15
- rulers of thousands
- Whatever matter the {decarch,} or ruler over ten, could not decide, went to the {pentecontarch,} or ruler of fifty, and thence by degrees to the {hecatontarch,} or ruler over a hundred, to the {chiliarch,} or ruler over a thousand, to Moses, and at length to God himself. Each magistrate had the care or inspection of only ten men; the {decarch} superintended ten private characters; the {hecatontarch} ten {decarchs;} and the {chiliarch,} ten {hecatontarchs.}
- Numbers 10:4 ; Deuteronomy 1:15 ; Joshua 22:14 ; 1 Samuel 8:12