Exodus 18:14

New King James Version

So when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

Now Absalom would rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. So it was, whenever anyone who had a lawsuit came to the king for a decision, that Absalom would call to him and say, “What city are you from?” And he would say, “Your servant is from such and such a tribe of Israel.”

Exodus 18:13

And so it was, on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood before Moses from morning until evening.

Exodus 18:15

And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Exodus 18:26

So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.

Numbers 15:34

They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.

Judges 1:16

Now the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up from the City of Palms with the children of Judah into the Wilderness of Judah, which lies in the South near Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.