Exodus 18:21

English Standard Version 2016

Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Cross References

Acts 6:3

Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.

Ezekiel 18:8

does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,

2 Samuel 23:3

The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

Zechariah 7:9

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Jeremiah 5:1

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Proverbs 28:2

When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.

Psalm 15:5

who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Job 31:13

“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

Nehemiah 7:2

I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.

Nehemiah 5:9

So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?

1 Samuel 8:3

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.

Exodus 18:25

Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Genesis 22:12

He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Acts 20:33

I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.

Isaiah 59:4

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

Luke 18:2

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.

Isaiah 16:5

then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness.”

1 Kings 18:12

And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 18:3

And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly,

1 Samuel 8:12

And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

Joshua 22:14

and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.

Numbers 10:4

But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

Genesis 47:6

The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

Numbers 1:4

And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.

Numbers 1:16

These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:18

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,

Ezra 7:25

“And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Psalm 15:1

O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill?

Exodus 17:9

So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

2 Samuel 18:1

Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.