Exodus 18:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

Exodus 18:13

Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.

Exodus 18:15

And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:

Exodus 18:26

And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

Numbers 15:34

And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him.

Judges 1:16

Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;