Numbers 11:16
Elders Appointed to Aid Moses
16Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me aseventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and bofficers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.Deuteronomy 1:15
15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, cand set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.Deuteronomy 16:18
Justice
18“You shall appoint djudges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.Joshua 8:33
33And all Israel, esojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests fwho carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, gjust as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.Joshua 24:1
The Covenant Renewal at Shechem
1Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel hto Shechem and isummoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And jthey presented themselves before God.Joshua 24:4
4And to Isaac I gave kJacob and Esau. lAnd I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, mbut Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.2 Chronicles 26:11
11Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders.
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