Exo 18:21, 2Sa 8:15-18, 20:23-26, 1Cor 12:28 | TSK | STEP | Moreover. able men. such as. men. hating. 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.}

Exodus 18:21

Moreover.

De 1:13-17; Ac 6:3

able men.

25; De 16:18; 1Ki 3:9-12; Pr 28:2

such as.

23:2-9; Ge 22:12; 42:18; 2Sa 23:3; 1Ki 18:3,12; 2Ch 19:5-10

Ne 5:9; 7:2; Ec 12:13; Lu 18:2,4

men.

Job 29:16; 31:13; Isa 16:5; 59:4,14,15; Jer 5:1; Eze 18:8; Zec 7:9

Zec 8:16

hating.

23:8; De 16:18,19; 1Sa 8:3; 12:3,4; Ps 26:9,10; Isa 33:15

Eze 22:12; Ac 20:33; 1Ti 3:3; 6:9-11; 2Pe 2:14,15

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

2 Samuel 8:15-18

over all Israel.

3:12; 5:5

David executed.

23:3,4; 1Ch 18:14; Ps 45:6,7; 72:2; 75:2; 78:71,72; 89:14; 101:1-8

Isa 9:7; Jer 22:15,16; 23:5,6; Am 5:15,24

Joab.

19:13; 20:23; 1Ch 11:6; 18:15-17

Jehoshaphat.

1Ki 4:3

recorder. or, remembrancer, or writer of chronicles.

Zadok.

1Ch 6:8,53; 24:3,4

and Seraiah.

1Ch 18:16

Shavsha. scribe. or, secretary.

Benaiah.

1Ki 1:44; 2:34,35; 1Ch 18:17

the Cherethites.

15:18; 20:7,23; 23:20-23; 1Sa 30:14; Eze 25:16; Zep 2:5

chief rulers. or, princes.

20:26

2 Samuel 20:23-26

Now Joab.

8:16-18; 1Ch 18:15-17

and Benaiah.

Adoram.

1Ki 4:6; 12:18

recorder. or, remembrancer.

1Ki 4:3

Sheva.

8:17; 1Ki 4:4; 1Ch 18:16

Shavsha.

Ira.

23:38; 1Ch 11:40

Ithrite. Jairite.

Jud 10:4,5

chief ruler. or, prince.

8:18; Ge 41:43,45; Ex 2:14,16The Hebrew is {cohen ledawid,} which might be rendered, a priest of David; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic. The Chaldee has {rav,} a chief or prince: probably he was a kind of domestic chaplain or seer to the king.

24:11; 2Ch 35:15

1 Corinthians 12:28

God.

7-11; Lu 6:14; Ac 13:1-3; 20:28; Ro 12:6-8; Eph 2:20; 3:5; 4:11-13

Heb 13:17,24; 1Pe 5:1-4

helps.

Nu 11:17

governments.

Ro 12:8; 1Ti 5:17; Heb 13:17,24

diversities. or, kinds.

10; Ac 2:8-11