Exo 18:21-25, Deu 16:18, 1Ch 23:4, 2Ch 19:8-10 | 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 18:21-25

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

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

‏ Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges.

1:15-17; 17:9,12; 19:17,18; 21:2; Ex 18:25,26; 21:6; 1Ch 23:4; 26:29

2Ch 19:5-11; Ps 82:2,3; Ro 13:1-6

in all thy gates.This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the forum or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a court of judicature was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nations. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte,} from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the Gate of judgment, from its having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.