Exodus 18:26

Modern English Version

They judged the people at all times. They brought the difficult cases to Moses, but they judged every small matter themselves.

Cross References

1 Kings 10:1

Now when the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame connected to the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case that I did not know.

Exodus 18:22

Let them judge the people at all times, and let it be that every difficult matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge, so that it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

Leviticus 24:11

And the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not show partiality in judgment, but you shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.”

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there arises a matter too difficult for you in judgment, between one kind of bloodshed and another, between one kind of lawsuit and another, and between one kind of assault and another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you must arise and go up to the place where the Lord your God shall choose.