Exodus 18:14

New Century Version

When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is all this you are doing for the people? Why are you the only one to solve disagreements? All the people are standing around you from morning until night!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

Absalom would get up early and stand near the city gate. Anyone who had a problem for the king to settle would come here. When someone came, Absalom would call out and say, “What city are you from?” The person would answer, “I’m from one of the tribes of Israel.”

Exodus 18:13

The next day Moses solved disagreements among the people, and the people stood around him from morning until night.

Exodus 18:15

Then Moses said to his father-in-law, “It is because the people come to me for God’s help in solving their disagreements.

Exodus 18:26

These officers solved disagreements among the people all the time. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but they decided the simple cases themselves.

Numbers 15:34

They held the man under guard, because they did not know what to do with him.

Judges 1:16

The Kenite people, who were from the family of Moses’ father-in-law, left Jericho, the city of palm trees. They went with the men of Judah to the Desert of Judah to live with them there in southern Judah near the city of Arad.