Deuteronomy 1:13 · KJV
“Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. {Take: Heb. Give}”
— Deuteronomy 1:13
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken {is} good {for us} to do.
Deuteronomy 1 — Context
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye {are}, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. {Take: Heb. Give}
14And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken {is} good {for us} to do.
15So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. {made: Heb. gave}
Cross References
Exodus 18:21
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:
Acts 1:21-23
Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Numbers 11:16-17
And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Acts 6:2-6
Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples {unto them}, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.