Exodus 18:21
Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
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 you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Moreover
- Deuteronomy 1:13–17; Acts 6:3
- able men
- Exodus 18:25; Deuteronomy 16:18; 1 Kings 3:9–12; Proverbs 28:2
- such as
- Exodus 23:2–9; Genesis 22:12; Genesis 42:18; 2 Samuel 23:3; 1 Kings 18:3, 12; 2 Chronicles 19:5–10; Nehemiah 5:9; Nehemiah 7:2; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Luke 18:2, 4
- men
- Job 29:16; Job 31:13; Isaiah 16:5; Isaiah 59:4, 14, 15; Jeremiah 5:1; Ezekiel 18:8; Zechariah 7:9; Zechariah 8:16
- hating
- Exodus 23:8; Deuteronomy 16:18, 19; 1 Samuel 8:3; 1 Samuel 12:3, 4; Psalm 26:9, 10; Isaiah 33:15; Ezekiel 22:12; Acts 20:33; 1 Timothy 3:3; 1 Timothy 6:9–11; 2 Peter 2:14, 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