Exo 18:13-27, Deu 1:9-17, 1Sa 7:16-17, 2Sa 8:5, 1Ch 18:14, Rom 12:8 | TSK

rulers of thousands.Whatever matter the {decarch,} or ruler over ten, could not decide, went to the {pentecontarch,} or ruler of fifty, and thence by degrees to the {hecatontarch,} or ruler over a hundred, to the {chiliarch,} or ruler over a thousand, to Moses, and at length to God himself. Each magistrate had the care or inspection of only ten men; the {decarch} superintended ten private characters; the {hecatontarch} ten {decarchs;} and the {chiliarch,} ten {hecatontarchs.}

Nu 10:4; De 1:15; Jos 22:14; 1Sa 8:12

at all seasons.

26; Ro 13:6

great.

Le 24:11; Nu 15:33; 27:2; 36:1; De 1:17; 17:8,9

they shall.

18; Nu 11:17

God.

18; Ge 21:10-12; 1Sa 8:6,7,22; Ac 15:2; Ga 2:2

and all this.

16:29; Ge 18:33; 30:25; 2Sa 18:3; 19:39; 21:17; Php 1:24,25

2-5,19; Ezr 10:2,5; Pr 1:5; 1Co 12:21

21; De 1:15; Ac 6:5

at all.

14,22

the hard causes.

15,22; De 17:8; 1Ki 3:16-28; 10:1; Job 29:16

Ge 24:59; 31:55; Nu 10:29,30; Jud 19:9

Deuteronomy 1:9-17

I am not.

Ex 18:18; Nu 11:11-14,17

your God.

10:22; 28:62; Ge 15:5; 22:17; 28:14; Ex 12:37; 32:13; Nu 1:46

1Ch 27:23; Ne 9:23

ye are this day.This was the promise made by God to Abraham, (Ge 15:5, 6,) which Moses considers now as amply fulfilled. Many suppose the expression to be hyperbolical; and others, no friends to revelation, think it a vain, empty boast, because the stars, in their apprehension, amount to innumerable millions. But, as this refers to the number of stars that appear to the naked eye, which only amount to about 3,010 in both hemispheres, the number of the Israelites far exceeded this; for independently of women and children, at the last census, they amounted to more than 600,000.

make you.

2Sa 24:3; 1Ch 21:3; Ps 115:14

and bless you.

Ge 15:5; 22:17; 26:4; 49:25; Ex 32:13; Nu 6:27; 22:12

9; Ex 18:13-16; Nu 11:11-15; 1Ki 3:7-9; Ps 89:19; 2Co 2:16; 3:5

Take. Heb. Give.

Ex 18:21; Nu 11:16,17; Ac 1:21-23; 6:2-6

I took.

16:18; Ex 18:25,26

made. Heb. gave.

Eph 4:11

captains over thousands.

Nu 31:14; 1Sa 8:12; 17:18; 22:7

charged.

27:11; 31:14; Nu 27:19; 1Th 2:11; 1Ti 5:21; 6:17

Hear.

16:18,19; Ex 23:2,3,7,8; Le 19:15; 2Sa 23:3; 2Ch 19:6-10; Ps 58:1

Joh 7:24

the stranger.

10:18,19; 24:14; Ex 22:21; 23:9; Le 24:22

shall not.

10:17; 16:19; Le 19:15; 1Sa 16:7; 2Sa 14:14; Pr 24:23; Lu 20:21

Ac 10:34,35; Ro 2:11; Eph 6:9; Col 3:25; Jas 2:1,3,9; 1Pe 1:17

respect persons. Heb. acknowledge faces.That is, let not the bold, daring countenances of the rich or mighty induce you to give an unrighteous decision; and let not the abject look of the poor man induce you either to favour him in an unrighteous cause, or to give judgment against him at the demand of the oppressor.

ye shall hear.

Ex 23:3,6,7; 1Sa 12:3,4; Job 22:6-9; 29:11-17; 31:13-16; Ps 82:3,4

Pr 22:22,23; Jer 5:28,29; Am 5:11,12; Mic 2:1-3; 3:1-4; 7:3,4

Jas 2:2-4,5

ye shall not.

1Ki 21:8-14; Job 31:34; Pr 29:25; Jer 1:17; Mt 22:16; Mr 12:14

1Th 2:4

the judgment.

2Ch 19:6

the cause.

17:8-10; Ex 18:18,22,26

1 Samuel 7:16-17

he went.When he was at Bethel, the tribe of Ephraim and all the northern parts of the country could attend him; when at Gilgal, the tribe of Benjamin and those beyond Jordan could have easy access to him; and when at Mizpeh, he was within the reach of Judah, Simeon, and Gad: but at Ramah was the place of his ordinary abode; and there he held his court, for there he judged Israel: and as it is probable that Shiloh was destroyed, it is said (ver. 17) that there, i.e., at Ramah, "he built an altar to the Lord."

in circuit. Heb. and he circuited.

Jud 5:10; 10:4; 12:14; Ps 75:2; 82:3,4

his return.

1:1,19; 8:4; 19:18-23

he built.

11:15; Ge 12:7,8; 33:20; 35:7; Jud 21:5; 1Ki 18:30-36

2 Samuel 8:5

And when.

1Ki 11:23-25; 1Ch 18:5,6; Isa 7:8

came.

Job 9:13; Ps 83:4-8; Isa 8:9,10; 31:3

Zobah.From 2 Ch 8:3, we learn that Zobah was the district in which Tadmor or Palymyra was situated; and consequently lay between the land of Israel and the Euphrates. The capital was probably the same as the Sabe mentioned by Ptolemy as a city of Arabia Deserta.