18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. …
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-22)Here is, I. Care taken for the due administration of justice among them, that controversies might be determined, matters in variance adjusted, the injured redressed, and the injurious punished. While they were encamped in the wilderness, they had judges and officers according to their numbers, rulers of thousands and hundreds, Exod. 18:25. When they came to Canaan, they must have them according to…
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