Exodus 18:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When Moses’s father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, ‘What is this you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening? ’

Cross References

Exodus 18:13

The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.

Exodus 18:15

Moses replied to his father-in-law, ‘Because the people come to me to enquire of God.

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.

Numbers 15:34

They placed him in custody because it had not been decided what should be done to him.

Judges 1:16

The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law,  had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms  , to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad.  They went to live among the people.

2 Samuel 15:2

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate.  Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for settlement, Absalom called out to him and asked, ‘What city are you from? ’ If he replied, ‘Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,’