Keluaran 18:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kata Musa kepada mertuanya itu: "Sebab bangsa ini datang kepadaku untuk menanyakan petunjuk Allah.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kata Musa kepada mertuanya itu: "Sebab bangsa ini datang kepadaku untuk menanyakan petunjuk Allah.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sahut Musa kepada mentuanya: Inilah sebab orang banyak ini datang kepadaku hendak bertanyakan kebenaran Allah.

Contextual Overview

¹³ And on the morowe Moyses sate to iudge the people: and the people stoode about Moyses from morning vnto eue. ¹⁴ And when Moyses father in lawe sawe all that he dyd vnto the people, he sayd: what is this that thou doest vnto the people? Why sittest thou thy selfe alone, and all the people stande about thee from morning vnto euen? ¹⁵ And Moyses sayde to his father in lawe: because the people come vnto me to seeke counsayle of God. ¹⁶ When they haue a matter, they come vnto me, and I iudge betweene euery man & his neyghbour, & shew them the ordinaunces of God and his lawes. ¹⁷ And Moyses father in lawe sayde vnto hym: It is not well that thou doest. ¹⁸ Thou both weryest thy selfe, and this people that is with thee: For this thing is of more wayght, then thou art able to perfourme thy selfe alone. ¹⁹ Heare therfore nowe my voyce, and I wyll geue thee councell, and God shalbe with thee: Be thou vnto the people to Godwarde, that thou mayest bring the causes vnto God: ²⁰ And thou shalt teache them ordinaunces and lawes, and shew them the way wherein they must walke, & the worke that they must do. ²¹ Moreouer, thou shalt seeke out among all the people, men of actiuitie [and] such as feare God, true men hating couetousnes, and place [of these] ouer the [people] rulers of thousandes, rulers of hundrethes, rulers of fiftithes, and rulers of tennes, ²² And let them iudge the people at all seasons: and euery great matter that commeth, let them bryng vnto thee, but let them iudge all small causes them selues, and so shall it be easier for thy selfe, and they shall beare a [burthen] with thee.

Bible Verse Review
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to inquire: Exodus 18:19, Exodus 18:20, Leviticus 24:12-14, Numbers 15:34, Numbers 27:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:26 - the hard causes Numbers 9:6 - they came 2 Chronicles 34:21 - inquire

Cross-References

Genesis 4:9
And the Lorde said vnto Cain: where is Habel thy brother? Which sayde I wote not: Am I my brothers keper?

Genesis 12:13
Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion.

Genesis 18:25
That be farre from thee that thou shouldest do after this maner, and slaye the ryghteous with the wicked, & that the ryghteous should be as the wicked, that be farre from thee: Shall not the iudge of all the worlde do accordyng to ryght?

Genesis 18:27
And Abraham aunsweryng, sayde: beholde I haue taken vppon me to speake vnto the Lorde, whiche am but dust and asshes.

Job 2:10
But he sayde vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: shal we receaue good at the hande of God, and not receaue euyll? In all these thinges did not Iob sinne with his lippes.

Psalms 44:21
woulde not God searche it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the heart.

Proverbs 12:19
The lippe of trueth shalbe stable for euer: but a dissemblyng tongue is soone chaunged.

Proverbs 28:13
He that hydeth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but whoso knowledgeth them and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.

Mark 2:8
And immediatly, when Iesus perceaued in his spirite, that they so reasoned within them selues, he saith vnto them: why reason ye suche thynges in your heartes?

John 2:25
And neded not, that any shoulde testifie of man: For he knewe what was in man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses said unto his father in law,.... In answer to his question; and there were two things, as Aben Ezra observes, he did to the people, and for which they came to him; the one is observed in this verse, and the other in the next:

because the people come unto me to inquire of God; of his mind and will in certain cases, and of his statutes and laws, as the following verse shows; what they should observe, and according to which they should conduct themselves: they came to inquire what God would have them to do; and, in doubtful cases, what was his will and pleasure, and to desire Moses to inform them; and if the things were of such a nature that he could not easily and readily do it, then to inquire of God for them, which in later times was done by Urim and Thummim.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To enquire of God - The decisions of Moses were doubtless accepted by the people as oracles. The internal prompting of the Spirit was a sufficient guidance for him, and a sufficient authority for the people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 18:15. The people come unto me to inquire of God — To know the mind and will of God on the subject of their inquiries. Moses was the mediator between God and the people; and as they believed that all justice and judgment must come from him, therefore they came to Moses to know what God had spoken.