Exodus 18:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.

Cross References

Exodus 18:22

Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you but decide every minor case themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

1 Kings 10:1

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon (fame due to the name of the Lord), she came to test him with riddles.

Deuteronomy 17:8

“If a judicial decision is too difficult for you to make between one kind of bloodshed and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another—any such matters of dispute in your towns—then you shall immediately go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose,

Deuteronomy 1:17

You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Leviticus 24:11

The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name in a curse. And they brought him to Moses—now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan—