Exo 18:21, Num 16:2, 2Sa 21:1-3, 24:10-17 | ESV | STEP | Moreover, look for able men from all the people , men who fear God , who are trustworthy and hate a bribe , and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands , of hundreds , of fifties , and of tens .

Exodus 18:21

21 Moreover, look for ^aable men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Numbers 16:2

2 And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men.

2 Samuel 21:1-3

David Avenges the Gibeonites

1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David ^bsought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” 2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but ^cof the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah. 3 And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless ^dthe heritage of the Lord?”

2 Samuel 24:10-17

The Lord’s Judgment of David’s Sin

10 But ^eDavid’s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, ^f“I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done ^gvery foolishly.” 11 And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to ^hthe prophet Gad, David’s ⁱseer, saying, 12 “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer ^{▼▼Or hold over} you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’” 13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ^kthree ^{▼▼Compare 1 Chronicles 21:12, Septuagint; Hebrew seven} years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.” 14 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, ^mfor his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”

15 ⁿSo the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from ^oDan to Beersheba 70,000 men. 16 And when ^pthe angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem ^qto destroy it, ^rthe Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel ^swho was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And ^tthe angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of ^uAraunah the Jebusite. 17 Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”